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They can change their procedures at the airport if they want to keep us gringos happy. Only place that I go to that they scan every single piece of luggage, then they still do the red/green light thing. If they brought the Zihua crew to Cabo the wait time to clear customs would be over 2 days.

And this would put back the palm trees and remove all that concrete how?

The discussion is about keeping foreigners coming. You may have missed a few points that you should go back and read. The locals will deal with our bad government. You do your voting with your wallet. People are suggesting measures the government could take to keep foreigners wanting to return because for several years now they have been doing exactly the opposite and driving foreigners away. It is glaringly apparent that not only does the local government NOT understand Zihuatanejo's niche in the international tourism market, but they haven't a friggin clue how to market it to foreigners which is probably why they haven't done so for at least 20 years or so. A tiny island in the Caribbean called St. Croix where I used to live does a better job marketing itself than Zihuatanejo with almost twice the population. Another even smaller island San Andrés does an incredible job as well. Key West with a population similar to St. Croix also has an excellent marketing campaign. Zihuatanejo officials take all-expenses paid vacations to Las Vegas, Spain, Italy and around the country and all we get are mostly busloads of tourists who bring their own food and drinks with them. I'm confident we can do better, and I know we have the talent. What we DON'T have is a government interested in doing anything other than serving itself. Thus the ridiculous unnecessary and unsolicited remodeling with an opaque budget gifted by the governor and self-assigned by the mayor to his own company. He's doing things that have plenty of my friends and neighbors exclaiming "Jorge se pasa" while of course others (fishermen, restaurant owners) are glad for the freebies (free palapas, cement storage boxes) being doled out apparently by the taxpayers. I'm still waiting for my new free computer or at least a new air conditioner.