Acapulco, Long Dotted With Tourists, Is Now Home to Drug War

By MARC LACEY
Published: June 8, 2009

“Cliff divers, all-night discos, towering hotels on the sand — that is one side of Acapulco. But a four-hour gun battle over the weekend between soldiers and suspected drug traffickers made clear that the popular beach resort has a dark side and that no part of Mexico may be completely immune from the continuing drug war.”

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