{"id":35763,"date":"2023-10-24T10:54:36","date_gmt":"2023-10-24T10:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=35763"},"modified":"2023-10-24T10:54:39","modified_gmt":"2023-10-24T10:54:39","slug":"mexico-police-gunned-down-in-ambush-in-guerrero-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=35763","title":{"rendered":"Mexico police gunned down in ambush in Guerrero state"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BBC News:   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>At least 11 police officers and two security chiefs have been killed in Mexico&#8217;s southern Guerrero state, say local media quoting police sources.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They say a security patrol was ambushed by unidentified gunmen in the Coyuca de Ben\u00edtez municipality, just west of the Pacific resort of Acapulco.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some of the victims of Monday&#8217;s attack were handcuffed before being shot dead, El Universal newspaper says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Guerrero has been plagued by violence related to drug-trafficking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Various groups in the area battle for control of the lucrative drug routes north along the Pacific corridor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The region is also a hotspot for the growing of opium poppies and the production of heroin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-latin-america-63153362\">a mayor of a small town in Guerrero was shot dead by gunmen.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The authorities blamed that attack on a criminal gang linked to a drug cartel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC News: At least 11 police officers and two security chiefs have been killed in Mexico&#8217;s southern Guerrero state, say local media quoting police sources. They say a security patrol was ambushed by unidentified gunmen in the Coyuca de Ben\u00edtez municipality, just west of the Pacific resort of Acapulco. Some of the victims of Monday&#8217;s attack were handcuffed before being shot dead, El Universal newspaper says. Guerrero has been plagued by violence related to drug-trafficking. Various groups in the area battle for control of the lucrative drug routes north along the Pacific corridor. The region is also a hotspot for&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35764,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35765,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35763\/revisions\/35765"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}