Troops are being sent into Acapulco in an effort to tighten security there. On Sunday, the biggest annual trade show, the Tianguis Turistico, is scheduled to open in Acapulco. This is regarded as the most important event of the year for the hospitality industry. Last week, a mid-afternoon in the main tourist area of Acapulco, a gun battle between cops and narcos left six people dead, three of them uninvolved civilians.
Last year the Tianguis began just as warnings about a Swine Flu epidemic cautioned Americans to avoid Mexico. Most restaurants in Acapulco and the rest of Mexico were told to close rather than risk spreading the disease. On the first day of the Tianguis, an earthquake rocked Acapulco, but did no significant damage.
Comments made last Wednesday by the new Tourism Minister, Gloria Guevara, have been ridiculed in the press. The minister said Mexico’s reputation for being unsafe is merely a result of what she called “perception.”
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Jimm Budd
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