And you thought Acapulco was famous for G-strings and cliff diving. You're relatively safe on a banana boat ride, but travel within Guerrero's interior is an invitation to a house of horrors. The state is home to two insurgent groups, as well as bandits, smugglers and drug traffickers. A lesson in "eco-trekkers meet narco-traffickers 101." Political violence erupts regularly between backers of the Organization of Peasants of the Southern Sierra (OCSS) and the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). More than 37 grassroots OCSS and PRI supporters have been gunned down over the last 31/2 years. In Guerrero state, 50 of every 100,000 people suffer a violent death. Stick to the beaches.
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