Acapulco News

(Acapulco, JG 24 December) The Guerrero representative of the federal highway department (known as SCT), Benito García Meléndez, took issue with Mayor Ávila’s recent announcement that three critical road projects were overdue. He said that over $300 million pesos have been invested in different projects in the port city, and... more»

(Acapulco, JG 22 December) The tourism promotion authorities in Acapulco have estimated that 470,000 tourists will visit the port city for the year-end holidays, implying some 652 million pesos of economic inflow. The announcement was made as interim Mayor José Luis Ávila Sánchez officially launched the operation to provide extra... more»

(Chilpancingo, JG 20 December) During year-end festivities in Chilpancingo yesterday, outgoing Governor Zeferino Torreblanca Galindo made a special point of addressing himself to Acapulco, which recently has suffered from organized crime violence in the outlying, working-class suburbs. ... more»

(Acapulco, NA 19 December) Little by little, hundreds of tourists are arriving in the port of Acapulco to celebrate the year-end holidays. At 10:30 am Saturday morning, 18 vehicles per minute were passing through the last toll booth of the Autopista del Sol, which connects Acapulco to Mexico City. ... more»

(Chilpancingo, NA 19 December) The chairman of the Budget and Finance Committee of the State Legislature, Carlos Álvarez Reyes, reaffirmed that the state budget for 2011 will not be approved at the expense of campaign promises made by candidates for State Governor. ... more»

(Acapulco, JG 17 December) Workers for the Añorve campaign attacked news photographers yesterday when they arrived to photograph suspected campaign law violations. Responding to a tip from the opposing PRD campaign of Ángel Aguirre, reporters for the left-of-center Jornada Guerrero arrived at a working class neighborhood atop Acapulco’s ridgeline on... more»

(Acapulco, JG 16 December) The Front in Opposition to the Icacos Pier (or FOMI by its Spanish acronym) set up a protest with pickets yesterday on Acapulco’s Costera Alemán, in Costa Azul, intermittently blocking traffic and handing out informational leaflets. ... more»

(Acapulco, NA 16 December) The press in Acapulco reports daily on incidents of drug violence, which is confined to the working class suburbs outside of Acapulco proper and to small villages higher in the mountains. ... more»

(Chilpancingo, JG 15 December) Tortilla prices have recently risen from $10 pesos per kilo to $11 or $12 pesos in most parts of Guerrero, causing public consternation. ... more»

(Acapulco, AN 14 December) Four Hundred Eighty-seven years ago yesterday, the first Spanish sailors entered the natural harbor of Acapulco, baptizing the beauteous location “the Bay of Santa Lucia.” This was on the day of Santa Lucia, 13 December, in the year 1523. The archbishop of Acapulco celebrated a special... more»

(Acapulco, JG 14 December) Interim mayor José Luis Ávila Sánchez took the initiative yesterday to deny that the Añorve campaign for governor has received any money from the city government’s budget. ... more»

(Acapulco, AN 13 December) According to the city’s Secretary of Tourism, Jessica García Rojas, Acapulco enjoyed an occupancy rate of 81.6% over this past weekend, with 85.5% in the Golden Zone alone. The traditional zone was at 72.3% and Acapulco Diamante reached 73.1%.This performance was better than expected for all... more»

(Acapulco, NA 11 December) Local citizens, businesses and beach concessionaires are up in arms again over the threat of putting a private yacht marina at Icacos on the East side of Acapulco’s bay. A citizen’s group called FOMI (Front in Opposition to the Icacos Pier) has announced round-the-clock vigils and... more»

(Acapulco, NA 10 December) Grupo Acapulco A.C., known as “Grupo ACA,” is a civic organization made up of community leaders and dedicated to the advancement of the port city. In this week’s elections, well-known local attorney José Luis Gallegos Peralta was elected the new chairman of the group. ... more»

(Acapulco, AN 10 December) The sixth annual Acapulco “Salsa and Bachata” Congress opens today and runs through Sunday with events promoting Latin dance rhythms. Award-winning dance teams will perform, like Gabriela Bernal and Victor Burgos, who have won Salsa competitions in the United States. Legendary producers of Salsa rhythms, like... more»

(Madrid, AN 10 December) Spanish police arrested three male flight attendants of Aeromexico for transporting in their luggage 300 pounds of cocaine, destined for European markets. The flight arrived December 7, Tuesday, in Madrid. Suspicions were aroused when it was noticed that the three flight attendants carried identical luggage. ... more»

(Chilpancingo, AN 9 December) The Civil Protection Office of the State Public Safety Department has made public that 56 cold fronts are expected during Guerrero’s winter, according to climatologists. Obviously, the cold fronts will most heavily affect the higher regions in the mountains and in the north-central areas of the... more»

(Taxco, NA 9 December) The Guerrero office of the National Migration Institute (or “INM”), Mexico’s immigration authority, announced that to date in 2010 they have “repatriated” 140 undocumented immigrants, the vast majority from Guatemala. Some of those deported were from the United States. Almost all of those detained in Guerrero... more»

(Acapulco, AN 8 December) “La Fortaleza” is the name of the new theater that today will open in the Zócalo of Acapulco with the premier of La Historia del Tigre (“History of the Tiger”), a dramatic dialogue by the Italian playwright and Nobel prize winner, Darío Fo. Actor Bruno Bichir... more»

(Acapulco, NA 8 December) Bus drivers and taxis ran over more than 300 people in Acapulco so far this year, killing 50, according to the transit police. In 2009 only 20 lost their lives to drivers of public transport vehicles. ... more»

(Zihuatanejo, AN 7 December) Rogelio Lozano Calderón, president of the Zihuatanejo Hotel Association (called “AHZ”), has labeled the hotel occupancy data periodically released by the state Secretary of Tourism Development (SEFOTUR) as “unreliable.” The reason: “They [the compilers at SEFOTUR] are more concerned about the political impact of their numbers... more»

(Chilpancingo, NA 7 December) The Guerrero office of the federal agency charged with investigation crimes related to elections (known as FEPADE) made public yesterday that it has received as many as 30 formal complaints against public officials who have violated election laws. ... more»

(Acapulco, NA 6 December) Diego Hurtado de Mendoza Street is right in Acapulco’s downtown area, where the Central Market is located. Part of it is the elevated road that connects to the road leading out of town towards Pie de la Cuesta. Several weeks ago, a drain pipe had collapsed... more»

Rigoberto Félix Díaz, the embattled chief operating officer of CAPAMA, Acapulco's water company, admitted yesterday that CAPAMA has been behind in payments to various entities, and now has a cumulation of unpaid current account debts in the amount of $340 million pesos. ... more»