Holiday weekend

You appear unaware that you and every other tourist lodging already pays a tax on your electric bill to Protur for tourism promotion. Unfortunately it appears to get spent on other things. 25 years ago when the former manager of the Sheraton, Bob Niederhauser, went with other hotel operators to ask then Governor Rubén Figueroa to please spend the Protur money on tourism the governor told him to shut up and threatened his life if he brought up the subject again. He left the country with his family never to return a few days later.

Your taxes also pay for each of the government's tourism offices and personnel, including the OCV in Ixtapa. So it shouldn't be asking too much to want all those public servants to simply do their jobs.

There is also an Ixtapa hotel association and two Zihuatanejo hotel associations.

I'm quite aware that we pay taxes which, presumably, end up in the pockets of various scumbags, instead of being used appropriately. That's why I suggested that a private co-op might do the job that's badly needed.

The two Zihuatanejo hotel associations are doing what they can, but money is tight. They, like me, simply want the government agencies to do their jobs instead of wasting our tax money.

But hey, I'm doing what I can. Maybe you all could help spread the word in your communities and recommend www.Zihuatanejo.net and www.Troncones.com.mx to your friends, neighbors and fellow citizens. Help a po' boy out!