Mexico's war on drugs: five years on
Five years after its president declared a war on Mexico’s drug
traffickers, a Guardian series assesses
the scale of carnage that on average kills someone every hour
Mexico's war on drugs blights resort of Acapulco
Five years after its president declared a war on Mexico's drug traffickers, a two-day Guardian series of articles and interactives assesses the scale of carnage that on average kills someone every hour. In this first piece, we look at Acapulco, the tourist haunt now haunted by fear, death and countless acts of brutality