And they (don't) say Zihuatanejo is dangerous...

And I for one am thoroughly disgusted by Astudillo's comment, and I believe a lot of other folks all up and down the coast are. If you read Despertar de la Costa you'll see they don't hold back much if anything. The only problem is because there seems to be no serious investigation by what passes for our local police of any matter, we never hear of any followup info or results of any investigations. So though a friend of many locals and visitors named Gonzalo who rented jet-skis at Playa La Ropa with another friend Felipe was recently found drowned at Playa Larga there have been no followup stories. Same with the cold-blooded murder of the couple of ejidatarios, Ramón and his wife, who lived near the garbage dump a couple of months ago. After the initial story nothing. That the authorities keep playing the hide-the-information game instead of taking their overpaid jobs seriously and professionalizing our police forces is truly disappointing.

As for the recent shoot-outs in the regularized land invasions on our hillsides, same place where certain supposedly altruistic foreigners insist on helping the invaders get their stolen lands regularized, maybe that was what Astudillo was referring to since very little has been reported on that except by local blogs and Despertar de la Costa.

And I'm still wondering why 5 confessed killers of local resident and U.S. citizen Al Rak were recently all released from prison.

Living anywhere on this planet is dangerous. With all our problems I'll still take Zihuatanejo. Your mileage may vary.