Word: acapulco
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...sense that something serious had befallen the entire country - not just Mexico City, Oaxaca and San Luis Potosi which originally reported outbreaks - has finally taken hold. When the weekend started, no one was certain what was happening or how they had to react. Indeed, the tourist mecca of Acapulco was partying on. I live in Mexico City and when I flew in for a wedding on Saturday, there were no health personnel at the airport, no pamphlets, no nurses, no questions except "where to?" (Read the five things you need to know about the swine flu outbreak...
...asked my cabbie, Jacobo, 57 if he had heard there was an influenza advisory. He said, "This is Acapulco, nothing like that happens here, we might have a few problems with the drug gangs, but do not worry, lady, this does not affect you people." I pressed him and he said: "the flu would scare the tourists and we cannot afford that, a week from now we have the Tourism Fair, we need the money. No, we do not have the flu here. Here we have open air, sea breezes, there can be nothing like that here. Do not believe...
...worst year for Mexican law enforcement in recent history, cartel gunmen have killed more than 500 police and military personnel, including eight soldiers who were beheaded near Acapulco on Sunday. Cobo's own life story also sheds light on the machinations of the crime empires behind this killing spree. From a lower-middle class family, Cobo had worked for a while as a journalist in the poor state of Oaxaca before joining the cartel in his late 20s because it was the best job opportunity available. "They first paid me $300 a fortnight, and then it went...
OVERREACTION Some are calling it a conduit for illegal immigration, but with other destinations like Cancún and Acapulco, the airlines take Mexicans to play, not just work...
...three fatal crashes, the service grounded the planes in 1997. "The T-41 is your grandmother's airplane," Merrill McPeak, the general running the Air Force when the program began, told TIME several months later. "Our mission is to train warrior-pilots, not dentists to fly their families to Acapulco." But the Air Force disagreed, and ultimately ended the more demanding flight-training program that General McPeak had championed. The service also found that making the planes airworthy for subsequent sale was prohibitive (they have had no maintenance since their grounding, and many were damaged by hail, Air Force officials...