The US government on Friday banned its employees from travel to the resort city of Acapulco, where an increase in the number of killings attributed to drug gangs in recent years has become the Pacific port one of the most dangerous cities in the world.
The new travel guidelines published online by the State Department extended a ban that already covered most of the state of Guerrero, where Acapulco is located, and which has been a critical point in violence related to trade and drug production.
The US government employees were allowed to travel to Acapulco long as they did . . .
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