Acapulco asks Mexican government to make up for canceling the city's annual tourism fair


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It’s not the profits lost from the relocation of the fair, but a wave of gang violence and American reluctance to visit this part of Mexico that’s led the famous vacation destination into a sea of debt.
Mexico's famous Pacific resort of Acapulco is being inundated, not by rising sea levels, but by a flood of debt. The city's mayor says the local government has been "collapsed" by a total of $162 m