Great pictures! Please keep us posted on all the new developments. I've actually been watching documentaries about that entire region. The cartel violence has been going on for some time now. Some towns in Guerrero have even created their own homegrown voluntary defense force to fill the lack of security from overwhelmed municipal police. Most of them armed with machetes , handguns and bolt action hunting rifles. Very fitting for a state called Guerrero (Warrior). The tourist destinations are extremely protected by the police and military so the probability of violence in your area of town is much much less than the outskirts of town and neighboring towns.