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 News Around the Republic of Mexico | July 2006 
Gunmen Kill Former Mexican Congressman in Acapulco
 Reuters
| | Federal police stand at the scene where the bodies of Eusebio Palacios, the head of security for the municipality of Acapulco, and Marcelino Marcelo Garcia, an officer in the Mexican Navy, were found in a car in the resort city of Acapulco July 12, 2006. Both men were kidnapped by heavily armed gunmen two days before. (Reuters) |
Gunmen seized and executed a former Mexican congressman in Acapulco on Wednesday, the latest incident in a spate of violence to afflict the Pacific resort city.
Juan Jose Nogueda was found shot dead less than an hour after gunmen driving a sport-utility vehicle grabbed him in front of startled tourists on the city's main street.
Acapulco in recent months has become a battleground between two cartels fighting for control of the lucrative drug trade.
Nogueda, once a federal deputy for the Institutional Revolutionary Party and more recently a construction industry businessman, was shot in the chest and groin.
His body was dumped by a palm tree along a road toward Acapulco's famous La Quebrada high-diving cliffs.
More than two dozen people have been murdered in the gang war this year.
In June, the head of a man aged about 35 was found with a handwritten note outside city offices across town from the tourist strip. |
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