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Mexico grenade blasts unrelated to Calderon visit

09 Nov 2006 00:44:54 GMT
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MEXICO CITY, Nov 8 (Reuters) - Grenade blasts in a Mexican resort this week just hours before a visit by President-elect Felipe Calderon were part of a drug feud and had no relation to politics, a law enforcement source said on Wednesday.

The grenades went off on Monday night in the Pacific beach resort of Ixtapa, where Calderon addressed an exporters' conference the next morning.

The blasts came the same day leftist guerrillas set off bombs in Mexico City, hitting Mexico's top electoral court, an opposition party's headquarters and a Canadian-owned bank.

No one was wounded in any of the blasts.

The Ixtapa explosions were related to drug trafficking, a source at the attorney-general's office said.

"It's not something that was premeditated for the president-elect's visit," the source said. "It is purely drug smuggling."

Drug gangs have been fighting police and each other in Ixtapa's Guerrero state for two years and attacks with grenades and assault rifles are common.

Conservative Calderon has been targeted by demonstrators who say he used fraud to narrowly defeat leftist candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador in July's presidential vote.

A court rejected those claims. Calderon takes over from President Vicente Fox on Dec. 1.

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