Mexican authorities from the port of Acapulco, in the Mexican state of Guerrero, found four corpses with signs of torture in a popular colony of the vacation center.
The Guerrero State Attorney General's Office reported that, around 06:30 am (local time), municipal police found the bodies of four semi-naked men tied by the hands on Adolfo Ruiz Cortines avenue in the La Laja neighborhood.
"Two of them (were found) on the road, one more suspended from the pedestrian bridge and another a few meters from it," the prosecutor's office detailed.
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He added that they found at the scene blankets with messages allegedly signed by members of a criminal group known as
The Russians,
where they threatened other criminal groups with whom they dispute drug trafficking in the port, one of the main destinations for vacationers in the Mexico City.
Authorities did not release the identity of the victims.
Forensic experts carry out the removal of four bodies in Acapulco, Guerrero, on May 6, 2023.STR / EFE/STR
Security specialists consulted by the EFE news agency indicated that the criminal cell that allegedly signed the message on the blankets that were hung next to the bodies is linked to the powerful Sinaloa Cartel, one of the main criminal organizations in Mexico and Latin America.
Acapulco is one of the most violent cities in the country
, with a homicide rate in 2022 of more than 60 per 100,000 inhabitants, higher than the rate in Mexico City (of almost 11 homicides per 100,000 people) that same year and only surpassed by cities such as Colima (180 per 100,000) or Tijuana (105 per 100,000).
The national homicide rate last year was 24 per 100,000, with more than 30,900 registered in total, a 7% decrease from 2021.
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However, the violence has escalated in Acapulco.
In the last six days alone, 19 people were murdered in that city, including the four victims found this Saturday on the pedestrian bridge, the newspaper Milenio reported.
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From January to March 2023, 450 intentional homicides have been registered in Acapulco, with 157 crimes in the first month of the year, according to data from the Executive Secretariat of the National Public Security System cited by EFE.
State authorities recently announced that they had strengthened port security by sending 100 police cars, 600 new security cameras and 400 portable radios for officers.
The mayoress of Acapulco, Abelina López Rodríguez, declared on Friday to the media that "homicides will occur as long as there is someone who is somehow involved in evil, as long as one does not get involved in anything, nothing happens."
López assured that for violence and insecurity to decrease, the family nucleus must be strengthened, since even if there are "a million security elements, there can still be homicides."
