Mexico militarises its beaches and main tourist resorts for Easter Week in the face of a new wave of murders

07-04-23

Some 8,000 troops are deployed to guard holidaymakers. There were six murders on the beaches of Cancun and Acapulco this week.

The government of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador deployed some 8,000 military personnel to guard highways and the country's main tourist areas for Easter Week, amid a wave of violence that caused six deaths on beaches in Cancún and Acapulco, two of Mexico's most important resorts.