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Subscribe to RSSA Belgian citizen shot to death in the Pacific resort of Acapulco near the site of the Mexican Open tennis tournament was a businessman, local prosecutors in Mexico said Sunday.
Saturday's killing was the second violent attack involving foreigners in Acapulco in less than three weeks. On Feb. 4, a band of masked gunmen invaded a beachfront home and raped six visiting Spanish women.
The Guerrero state district attorney's office identified the dead man as 59-year-old Jan Sarens, an executive with the family-owned Belgian firm Sarens, which supplies heavy transportation equipment for construction, mining and energy. It has offices in 50 countries, including Mexico.
Celia Gomez, an attorney for the firm's Mexico office, said it had not identified the body. Gomez said the company had a board member named Jans Sarens who lived in Mexico.
The man was shot to death Saturday afternoon in a shopping center parking lot, and his body was found outside a Mercedes Benz car with Mexico City plates.
Authorities in Guerrero state said in a statement that the killing was being investigated and the motive for the attack had still not been determined.
Violence and crime, much of it blamed on drug gangs, have grown worse in Acapulco in recent years.
The Associated Press
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Country is out of control.
.................as I sit tapping my fingers on my desk.......thinking, don't travelers intending to make trips to Mexi-hole pay ANY attention to the news????
"Is my life worth the trip to that murdering cesspool of a place?"
Eric Holder's "fast & furious" gun?
It's actually the USA's fault that Mexico has turned this way. It is our war on drugs imposed upon Mexico that has caused both countries to go astray. Stop the war on the drugs completely, and watch the crime disappear.
Mexico has been a failed state for the last 200 years.
This guy probably did not want to pay the bribe for doing business there, so they whacked him.
AB:
And let our children turn into rampant drug users??? Are you insane!! Or do you work for the cartel?
And let's not even mention the man who took a meat cleaver to his wife yesterday in New York and firemen had to rescue her ... and the same day in NY two men in separate incidents were shot to death!!!!!
RIGHT YOU FOOLS ... THIS ONLY HAPPENS IN MEXICO ... GET REAL!!!!!!
And this was only in NY ....
This guy would have been safer if he lived in Afghanistan. Mexico is worthless.
tontosh ... it's statements like yours that reveals the ignorance of the general public!!!!
He would not have been safer in NY, Miami, Detroit, Oakland, Austin, Las Vegas
Speaking of Las Vegas ... couple of days ago a shooting from a car that killed people in another car which then ran into a taxi that burst into flames and killed two more people!!!!!!
You're all finger pointing irrelevant fools ................
the answer is simple, anyone ever hear of PROHIBITION and how great that worked out?
Schuylaar ... and what in the hell does "PROHIBITION" have to do with extortion and all around corruption?????? Simple minded simple solution .....
@newscover:
The incidents you mention, from the man who took a meat cleaver to his wife to the Muslim felon who should have already been in prison for the crimes committed before he shot the rapper and caused the other deaths in Las Vegas...
were crimes of passion done by people who knew each other, however briefly as in the case of the Las Vegas incident, and not deliberate wanton killing as frequently happens in Mexico.
This constant attempt to excuse Mexico violence with the playground excuse of "But America does it too" is pathetic and worn out and even though you are probably too stupid to understand this please allow me to point out that the people in Mexico are RUNNING from that hell hole cesspool to MY country that you are attempting to paint with the same brush.
In fact, every damned pathetic first, second, third, and on down the mathematics scale of world cesspools has immigrants and refugees who walk, run, swim, fly, and boat, leaving their parents and even children, to get to MY country. So we can't possibly be on the same scale as Mexico or any other freaking place you want to try to rate us with.
Take your avatar and go to China, unless you are already there. You may be happier there.
screminmimi ... you are as full of BS as the rest ... maybe more!!!
You had best watch some of your own reality shows ... might try "First 48" and maybe you'd get off of that stupid ass high horse you seem to be riding in reference to the real violence in the cities of the U.S.
I'm not defending Mexico ... but hey ... don't be stupidly blind to your OWN misgivings ...........
newscover
I don't know where you live, but I live in south Texas and I can tell you first hand that Mexico is a much more dangerous place than NY.
Los Zetas has turned violence and torture into an art-form. They are beheading people and even feeding them alive to wild animals. I haven't heard of any of that in the US.
newscover:
ROFLMAO!!!!
Reality shows???!!!
Where are you from??? There isn't a "reality show" on the tube that is "reality!" And nothing in your post addresses what I said about everybody on the planet wanting to run for the border... OUR BORDER!
They sure as hell aren't running for Mexico's.. or China's... or Russia's.. Australia and Canada are our only competition and even then we are still Number One. So as Marion of Happy Days would say.. "Sit on it!"
Texas_Born & Bred ... you see ... now that is part of the problem ... you took a country (Mexico) and compared it to a state (NY)
Parts of Mexico are in fact as dangerous as NY ... most of Mexico is not! And the blanket statements make about Mexico as a whole ... are ridiculous!!!!
And to compare Mexico to Afghanistan does a really bad service to the good people in Mexico who are trying to have a decent life.
screminmimi ... what you just wrote is typical ... nothing new ... beat your chest ape stuff!!!! But hey ... if it makes you feel good .........
Typical. You have nothing to say so you resort to personal attacks. My comment was true. If you can, rebut it. If you can't, have the grace to admit it and move on.
newscover -
prohibition was THE most corrupt, violent time in US history during the 20th century that took place on our soil..and as far as suggesting that my comment was "simple-minded"..I'm not the simpleton here..but keep it coming I enjoy anarchy!
screminmimi ... go wrap yourself in the flag ... stick your thumb in your mouth ... and take a nap!!!
Was this really written? What happened in this country with alcohol prohibition? Flowers and candy for everyone? No, extortion and corruption. Those that who do not know history...
newscover.....
No "Truth" (Avatar), no vision, no individual ideas and no knowledge.....just Progressive agenda, outrageous comments, and reverting to name calling.
You Progressives are despicable.
once the illegal demand has been eliminated..let's regulate and tax the poo-poo out of it..rivals become merely competitors and there you have it..good ole capitalism. Think of how many jobs and revenue this could create..it's all about supply and demand!
LOL... and you demonstrate my point so effectively! I picture you stomping your foot with your arms crossed tightly across your chest, your lower lip thrust out, eyebrows drawn down into a childish scowl.
I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent... it's so unsporting. Good day.
Is this what gun control looks like?
I visited Cancun a few years back and had a good time but felt apprehensive. I would not consider going back again. Mexico is definately nowhere to visit and is getting worse quickly. They need to fix their problems before the U.S. gets drug into it. We need to close the border completely.
Cancun and the Yucatan is the safest place in Mexico. The crime rate is lower there than it is in many American cities.
Was anyone murdered in the United States, yesterday?
Has anyone been beheaded and thrown in a mass grave lately in the U.S.? Keep letting these Mexicans in and that will change!
It's not about the border; it's about Americans demand for drugs. The Mexicans are simply profiting from Americans demand for dope. The Americans could not care less how many die, as long as they get the dope and look so cool.
Zheng, most Americans DO care. For multiple reasons. It's close to America, and thus violence there is likely to spill out over here. Many Americans want to either legalize many drugs, or stop their flow completely (the former because, in many instances, they hope to curtail some of the violence). And I would hardly say the Mexicans are SIMPLY profiting, because that implies a more peaceful approach, rather than murdering and trying to dominate the market, by killing the competition.
I wont ever go to LAS VEGAS either... shootouts on the strip that killed 3 people, think about it before you go, you could be killed. Everyone should boycott the USA!! There is better and safer areas to visit here in Mexico, like Cancun.
"Mexico......nice place to visit. But I wouldn't want to stop living there."
Yes EL Chapo, you should do everything in your power to stop your people from coming to the US. Spread the word that Uncle Sam is broke and dangerous. Nothing good will happen if you venture norte amigos.
Are you saying you have a problem with capitalism? Many Americans also don't believe that there should be any restriction or government oversight on markets. Well, such is the situation in Mexico.
Dead is dead. We have one of the highest homicide rates of any advanced industrialized country.
@Tam,
Yeah, wonder why people keep drying to try and get here, even leaving behind their own children to starve and die as long as they themselves can get to this land of such god-awful murder and terror?
Stuff a sock in it. When people stop running TO here and start running FROM here, you can start comparing us to Mexico.
We can model our Gun controls after Mexico's gun control laws.
I used to go to Mexico quite often. Now you couldn't pay me to go there.
No need to go. There all here!
Communist, Way too big of an over generalization. Mexico has 130 million people, not all are drug lords. Also, millions of Americans are destroying their own lives by consuming drugs. Ask yourself if this is a supply issue or a demand issue. Blame Colombia, Mexico whomever. But it is the demand that creates the supply, no matter what color the flag.
Yeah man , let's go on vacation ....
Ole' !
Very sad................Mexico used to be a fun place to go.
What is the exchange rate, in pesos, for American tourists kidnapped and: (a) returned; (b) returned alive; (c) not returned?
I got a great money making Idea for us all. Everyone here invest $20 and we will hire a semi, go to mexico, buy up all the pesos and we can scrap the pasos at a metal scrap yard. I should go on those late night infomercials lmfao.
The government suppresses a lot of the stuff that goes on down there and we only hear about the worse things. Tourism is a big industry that must be protected.
And we want to leave our boarders open and give amnisty? Thats an unset baited trap!
And add to that our own country wants to disarm us and leave us helpless like them! Mexico is proof that gun control doesnt work.
The reason that gun control in Mexico doesn't work is because the country is awash in guns that come from elsewhere. Where do you think the majority of them come from? Uzbekistan?
Doesn't matter where they come from it's how they are used!!
Mex and black US gangstas have the same aims - couldn't hit the broad side of a barn - but they spray bullets all over when hey shoot - making sure that everyone keeps their heads down...
DJJJ111, what I said is thought out. The drugs in question won't be legal for those under 18 or 21, depending upon the drug. As it is, kids know where to buy drugs illegally. A legal market will largely destroy the illegal market. Drugs will be dispensed with mandatory safety and usage info, as is already the case with pharmaceuticals. Moreover, the tax money will be funneled into appropriate anti-drug programs. If anything, you'll have less of an epidemic. What we have now is an abomination.
"put a fork in it
Mex and black US gangstas have the same aims - couldn't hit the broad side of a barn - but they spray bullets all over when hey shoot - making sure that everyone keeps their heads down..."
Yeah, imagine if they were as good at killing school kids like the angry white males of America! ; )
I am from Canada and live in Mexico. Once I saw a convoy drive up and execute a rival, the police came quickly but you can see the fear in the police men faces they were like lambs driving to the slaughter house. The convoy had big bullet proof trucks and machine guns pointing out, the police look poorly armed in comparison.
The drugs feed billions of dollars to the cartels and with that they buy the best armament from the US, it is impossible for any country to fight such heavily and well armed cartels.
As a Canadian it is sad when I go back home and see how every where I go they freely consume drugs, even have government needle clinics, marijuana party etc. As far as I am concern the Canadian government and every drug consumer have blood on their hands. People live in fear and get killed here while the Canadian government does nothing to stop consumption.
Guess its easy to have people get killed in other countries and live in a bubble as to who is paying for the bloodshed.
So true, and yet they all go ballistic when someone lights up a tobacco cigarette.
legalizing drugs would end it. It is the governments who keep it illegal who have blood on their hands.
Legalizing it wouldn't end it. (?) Leagalizing the drugs would drive demand, production, and logistics WAY up. It would take the drug kingpins from millionaires to billionaires.
No, legalizing drugs would put production in the US, not Mexico. You hadn't thought this through had you? Look at Colorodo and their model. It is highly regulated, taxed, and controlled. Why would someone buy from a shady back alley dealer when they could buy it legally?
sandtrap, you have it totally wrong, and may want to get your head examined. ug1 is spot on. When drugs are legalized, there is no guarantee that demand will even go up at all, and even if it is, American companies are wholly capable of producing enough drugs for the entire planet if they have to.
By legalizing drugs we would have heroin, cocaine and many other drugs that are highly addictive flooding our country. Pot is one thing but hard drugs are definitely not.
I assume you're a morbidly obese white chick who was wooed by a mexican
pained1 -
it is crass comments such as yours that perpetuate myth and hatred..what's your heritage? Face it, WE the PEOPLE are a nation of IMMIGRANTS and your special because? America get over it!!!
yawn
And this would be different how? Heroin and cocaine are already flooding our country, and they are illegal.
and as with all addictive substances they are to be used at your own risk..everyone should know their limitations..however, if you want to go home and od on drugs that's up to you..just like blowing your brains out with a gun that you purchased or drinking yourself to death..problem is it's political suicide and noone wants to touch it..meanwhile we're loosing tons of money and jobs that this industry would create.
you go to Mexico, you die in Mexico
I go there at least once a year..I am not dead yet.
if at first you don't succeed, try, try again.........LoL
I keep waiting for the GOP to announce that we need to annex Mexico, and make it the 51st state. We have most of their people here illegally now, so why not? Let's do it, and make them all American citizens. The GOP would have all the cheap labor they needed, and the D's would have the votes they needed.
It would be a win win for each party, and the rest of us gets the shaft.
they are happy with they way things are now..and besides, who needs illegals when you have death certificates..
I've been telling people for years stay the freak away from that slaughter house of a country. The police and the officals are paid to look the other way. These bastards run the country with little or no fear. They break into events involving innocent people and just mow them down with total disregrad for life enough said right stay The (Fe uc out)
LOL - sounds like the NYC police!
till the season opens on cartel, it can only get worse. Think of it like this. We poison basically harmless rodents for crapping in our homes but we do nothing about the rodents that shoot people.
People still go to Mexico? I guess they didn't get the memo.
Mexico is no different than any other country that does not practice democratic principals and it's people do not willingly practice fascism which is evident in immigration numbers. Stop blaming the mexican people as a whole..everyone has their panties in a bunch only because it directly affects our border. If it was "over there" it would be someone else's problem. But since we are world police..Drones anyone?
Why use a drone they would make a good target for an Arizona test facility.
Don't worry mexico,we'll keep taking all your SH** and turn them into "Americans"
YEP and we are going to let like 8 or 9 Million of these people in this country for a free ride.
a country with no gov't..no police force..no military...controlled by drug gangs...and people wonder why most citizens of the USA don't want mexicans to come here... alot of them just bring trouble here....i hope there tourism drys up....
*a lot*
*their*
*dries*
Perhaps we can get an undocumented alien to help you with your english.
You're no better...*English* is capitalized, and there should be a comma after 'perhaps'.
I'll agree on the "English", but you're wrong on the comma after "perhaps", Angela. Just. Plain. Wrong.
No, I am not.
"(W)we can get an undocumented alien to help you with your english", is a full sentence, by it's self. The 'perhaps' is adverb used to display uncertainty. I also forgot that in using the word 'perhaps', you also needed a question mark at the end.
You made THREE errors within on sentence.
If you're going to be a grammar and spelling 'Nazi', at least understand the rules of the language. Oh, and for the record, I do NOT claim to be the perfect grammar and spelling poster while on this site, I already know I'm not, far from it.
"Itself" is one word. "It's self" means "it is self"; makes no sense whatsoever.
Oh, and you are still so very wrong.
http://painintheenglish.com/case/4418
http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=2573397
http://www.american.edu/ocl/asc/upload/Commas.pdf
If you're going to be a grammar and spelling 'Nazi', at least understand the rules of the language.
Mexico hasn't been a safe place to travel for the last 10 years.Their citizens have been fleeing to our country not only for work but to escape the violence that the drug cartel has bestowed upon them.The Mexican government has looked away for decades as they are on the receiving end of the cartels donations.If the U.S. was itching to invade any country, instead of going to Iraq, we should have gone into Mexico.Either that or they should not have been receiving monetary aid from the U.S.
I've been to Mexico 5 times in the last 10 years. I have never felt threatened or feared for my life there. St. Louis on the other hand...
I have been going to Mexico for the last 30 years for business, make a buck as I am part of the 50% that pays federal taxes here in the US. You have to be careful and very low key and still there is always the possibility that you could be the victim of just being in the wrong place at the wrong time. While I support legalization it is not the only problem Mexico has. Read a bit of history, it started with Cortez. For you parasites that make these broad statements, real people do things so they can make a living. In 30 years of international travel I have only been pickpoceted once and that was in Italy. A lot of you probably shouldn't travel.
Most of you couldn't be more wrong about Mexico. I'm British, and moved here a couple of years ago after 10 years in the US.
The only thing I miss about the US is Amazon.
I tour on my motorcycle down here and I've seen it all. Big cities to tiny remote villages. I've never had the slightest reason to be concerned.
I knew Jan Sarens and the guy he was up against in a $10m lawsuit. It was either a robbery gone bad or a hit. Time will tell. Certainly it had noting to do with the drug violence.
I'll say it again. Unless you're coming down here to deal drugs or in some other way screw with the locals you have very little to fear.
They have no interest in cutting off your big flabby cheeseburger-stuffing heads.
Oh, and as long as you're too lazy to do your own menial labor, they will continue to go North to do it for you.
As one who spends 4-6 weeks a year in Cozumel and the Yucatan, I can tell you I feel a lot safer there than I would in Detroit or Chicago.
The murder rate in MX is a lot less per capita than most major US cities.
Actually Mexico has the 3rd highest homicide rate by gun per 100,000 in the Americas. Valenzuela and Columbia sit on top of that list at 1 and 2 respectively.
My cousins in Mexico blame rap and hip hop for the glorification of the gangster life style. Education used to be more highly valued; high school and college students used to look down on pot heads and drug use.
The kick back is also a fact of life in Mexico. This practice seems to be OK with California's politicians too.
Every successful drug sale by a Chicago Democrat Drug Gang member results in profit for a Mexican Cartel killer. Every US drug user supports murder in Mexico. We can eliminate the gunning down of children in Chicago by putting every drug gang member in jail for life and every drug user in jail for 25 years. Start doing that and the violence will stop!
waste of time to imprison people for usage - doesn't WORK and the release only starts the SAME CYCLE UP AGAIN
Classic .. Chicago Democrat Drug Gang member? Are you f-ing serious. How many Drug gang members do you really think give a @!$%# about politics? You can bet if they do, they are 100% backing the conservative politicians. Legalization would mean a reduction in their profits. Why do you the prohibition era organized crime bought and paid for politicians?
Why do people continue to go to this shi*thole of a country??