22 Mexicans Kidnapped enroute to Acapulco Resort

Creo que fue soldados de al Famila Michoacan;

Creo que un Cappo in le famila teni un decision estupido, que si las turistas estan en vacation, su familia tiene dinero. En los dias que viene, la famila michuacan van a orar para el dinero, pero solo van a ganar la policia national y la armada.

- Federico Gochoa



MEXICO CITY — A heavily armed gang has kidnapped 22 Mexican tourists in the beach resort of Acapulco, the prosecutor's office in the southern state of Guerrero said Saturday.

The tourists from Morelia in the neighboring state of Michoacan were "deprived of their liberty" late Thursday when they were overtaken by an armed group, prosecutors said in a statement, adding they did not know the identity of the gunmen or the fate of those abducted.

Local media reported that a woman escaped the kidnapping and said heavily armed gunmen accosted her group group of employees from an auto-mechanic shop when they made a brief stop on their way to their hotel for a weekend stay.

Michoacan is the base for La Familia, a powerful drug cartel whose reach stretches to Guerrero, a major hub for drug trafficking, and where Acapulco has seen bloody cartel-related violence over the past year.

On a single day in March, drug-related violence left 13 people dead in the city, including four civilians who were decapitated and five police.

Guerrero is among several states at the heart of a massive federal deployment of some 50,000 troops that has so far failed to suppress a wave of violence blamed on feuding drug cartels since 2006.

According to official figures, more than 28,000 people have been killed in violence linked to cartels and organized crime since December 2006, when President Felipe Calderon took power