ACAPULCO, Mexico – After nightfall in Acapulco, a once-celebrated Pacific coast vacation destination that is better known today for being one of Mexico’s most violent cities, Juan Alvarado ...

By Gonzalo Ortuño López In the Mexican port city of Acapulco, in southwestern Guerrero state, human activities have put so much pressure on the most important lagoons that the mangrove areas in ...

ACAPULCO, Mexico — Acapulco’s mayor is telling tourists from Mexico City to go home, and residents are stoning their cars. Cancun’s hotels are pleading for visitors to fill their empty rooms ...

Coroners from the city of Acapulco remove a body from Barranca de la Laja, an impoverished neighborhood in Acapulco, Mexico. Mexico has seen more than 12,000 murders in the first six months of 2017.

Eventually, Mr. Sánchez was able to bus out more than 140 of them to the nearest city, Chilpancingo, and the capital, Mexico City. Most of those who remained were locals from nearby neighborhoods.

From the crescent bay and swaying palms, the taxi drivers of Acapulco need just 10 minutes to reach this other, plundered world. Here, in a neighborhood called Renacimiento, a pharmacy is smeared w… ...