MEXICO: 23 April UPDATE: Latest Durango Body Count Is... 58; Drug Violence Changes D.F. Easter Exodus...To Inflows And "Staycations".

LATIMES/ T.Wilkinson /

   Today, Mexico City, aka the DF, with its concentration of federal police and military, is one of the safest places in Mexico.
   In the past, many of its 20 million residents would flee the big dirty city at Easter for sandy resorts like nearby Acapulco.
   No longer.
   Polls show widespread fear of travel on state highways - 57% went on vacation last Holy Week but only 24% plan to do it this year.
   The main reason is the narco wars...with their many dead bodies and kidnappings...on Acapulco's streets.
   The highway from the DF to Acapulco is now called "the route of blood."
    So...many Chilangos are staying home.

AND:  23 APRIL UPDATE: LINK CHANGE:
   Police report the new total of bodies found in a Durango City residential area is now... 58.
Durango is under the control of the Sinaloa narcos.
http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=392200&CategoryId=14091

MEXICO: More Senseless Violence In Acapulco; 10 Dead, 4 Wounded In Nightclub Shooting.

AFP

  Gunmen stormed into an Acapulco nightclub early Saturday, killing 10 and wounding four.
   Police report that the 10 dead were men between 25 and 45.

MEXICO: Weekend Narco Murder Review; U.S. Flying Drones Past Border.

AP/M.HERALD / O. RODRIGUEZ

ACAPULCO:   Gunmen chased a male target into a home and sprayed the residence with bullets killing two boys, aged six and two, an elderly woman and wounding a young woman.

CANCUN:   Police found four men bound, shot and set on fire in an open field in the outskirts of the city.

AND:     The U.S. government admits it has been flying its drones deep into Mexican territory since last month to track narcos.
   Presidents Obama and Felipe Calderón agreed to continue the surveillance flights on 3 March in Washington.
   The missions have been kept secret because of Mexico's legalities and sensitive sovereignty issues.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/16/world/americas/16drug.html?_r=1&ref=todayspaper&pagewanted=all