El Centro

Bar Ego, is that right across from the Fishing Hole?

It's the open-air bar that always has blaring music and that blocks the sidewalk on the corner of Vicente Guerrero and Nicolás Bravo next to the Farmacia Koyuka.

Well darn! That is really terrifying! You can't get much more in the center of the tourist area than that and at an hour that tourists are out walking around. The night before La Ropa. The new gangs must not have gotten the "not near the tourists" memo as the activity in Acapulco has also spread into the tourist areas. So sad.

Local rumor has it the local gang is trying to keep outsiders from moving in. They can kill each other off for all I care, but this is one of the consequences of the USA's long-failed drug policies and the stupid War On Drugs. Each U.S. state that legalizes pot is taking an important step towards disempowering these violent criminals. But there are still the rest of the stupidly banned popular intoxicating substances used by over 100 million North Americans.