20 August 2011

Gas stations shut for 3 hours in Mexican resort city to protest drug violence | #drugwar #cartels #Mexico

Nearly two dozen gas stations in the Pacific resort city of Acapulco shut down simultaneously for three hours Friday to protest growing drug cartel violence in the area.

Gas station owners said several of their security guards and attendants have been killed amid a spike in kidnappings, extortion and armed holdups in the last few months.

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