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Acapulco has spawned a thriving underground traffic in "Acapulco gold," the local marijuana that hippies believe gives the world's best high. Prostitution, vice and corruption abound, and guns are as common as palm trees. Moreover, Acapulco is the largest city in mountainous and jungle-clad Guerrero, Mexico's most lawless state. Guerrero has become such a problem that last week the Mexican army was embarked on a massive drive to round up all the arms in the state...
Call for Help. Guerrero averages more than 200 murders a month, 60 in Acapulco alone. Last November, when a new bride refused to dance with one of her wedding guests in Tunas, guns came out and eleven persons were killed. A few weeks later, in a cemetery near Acapulco, another murder victim was no sooner in the ground than guns started blazing among the mourners; two people were killed. Six more died recently after a shoot-out over a land dispute. The incident that finally brought the arms crackdown came last month when two rival union factions shot...
...Nicaragua, Lorenzo Guerrero, former Interior Minister and Vice President, succeeded automatically to the presidency fortnight ago after the fatal heart attack suffered by President René Schick, the quiet, courtly Managua professor who was the hand-picked candidate of Nicaragua's all-powerful Somoza family. Guerrero plans no changes in government policy, is expected only to keep the office until next February's elections, when Anastasio ("Tachito") Somoza intends...
...raise prices and the U.S. Government's determination to keep them down. Oilmen argue that if prices go up, the major customers for Venezuelan fuel oil-mainly power utilities and other industries of the U.S. East Coast-will shift to coal or atomic energy. But, says Manuel Perez Guerrero, Venezuela's skeptical Minister of Mines: "That's something that the companies will have to prove." Anyway, the Venezuelans seem willing to sell less oil for more money. In the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), they have been leading a campaign to assign production quotas in order...
...from beneath the sheltering wing of the church. One such group, the Young Christian Workers, publishes an uncensored and outspoken monthly bulletin, Juventud Obrera, that demands free, Western-style labor unions, lashes out at the anachronistic sindicatos, which fix prices and wages throughout the country. Said journal Editor Francisco Guerrero, 25, describing his mission last week: "Our work is God's answer to the evil negation of all human values. It is the only salvation for Spain's masses, oppressed from above [by Franco] and menaced from below [by the Communists...