The shooting in Coyuca de Benitez exemplifies fears over growing violence as Mexico approaches national elections next year and crime groups battle to preserve or increase their political power.
Forensic technicians work at a crime scene where several local police officers were shot dead by gunmen, in Coyuca de Benitez, Mexico on Tuesday. MEXICO CITY — At least a dozen police officers and a local security supervisor were killed in a brutal ambush Monday in a coastal town north of Acapulco, a sign of how criminal gangs are openly confronting authorities in a state known for heroin poppy production.
into the Acapulco area, according to the daily Reforma. The armed group has a base in the traditionally violent northwestern part of the state — known as Tierra Caliente — where it is said to have ties to local politicians, according to Reforma.Judicial personnel in the Tierra Caliente have come under such threat that the state prosecutor’s office over the weekend ordered administrative employees there to halt their work.cited earlier this year by the daily Milenio.
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