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Testing has resumed at the módulo "El Embalse" and the numbers only keep rising swiftly. Zihuatanejo currently has 493 active cases of Covid-19. I know too many people currently with Covid-19, including another recent death and another close to it. The local government is still putting makeup on a cancer patient and playing patty cakes, simulating its job without actually doing it. A damn shame during these difficult times. "Spraying disinfectant" is a waste of time and money and only fools the poorly informed. I expect the state of Guerrero will go to Semáforo Rojo this coming Monday. This has played out exactly as I predicted several weeks ago.

What a lovely refreshing rain we received last evening. Once again making for perfect sleeping weather. Much of today was cloudy though there was still plenty of sunshine for the beachgoers.

I keep reading about more and more locals and visitors disgusted with the Blue Flag regulations at La Ropa, which on top of the pandemia restrictions seem cruel if not absurd. Basically most locals and visitors simply don't feel welcome at some of their favorite beaches anymore, and the government appears not to care in the least. It has its agenda and only pretends to be listening to what the people want, only as long as it involves paving things and pouring cement, though we still couldn't coax a hospital out of them. Too much spending oversight for the latter, I imagine. My disappointment in our local government only continues to increase.

¡Cuidemos nuestro patrimonio!
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#NoAlBlueFlagEnPlayaLaMadera
#PreservemosPlayaManzanillo

A couple enjoys the extremely calm and shallow water at Playa La Madera, which unfortunately the local government wants to "certify" as another "Blue Flag" beach.

Cases are disturbing with all the safe guards I have witnessed here since July 24th. Just did not see this coming! Be safe all!

Hola Rob.
We also hate this blue beach bs. Before the blue beach shit we went every week day to La Ropa. Weekends we stayed away. Now we can't go because everyone is crammed into the restaurant and not allowed on the beach. Only place we can go to now is Larga where we can't go in the water because we are old and poor swimmers. Say f**k to blue beaches and especially the restaurant there that started all this shit.

We are very much opposed to the Blue Flag BS on Playa la Ropa.

Our question is whether the "no chairs or umbrellas" on the beach rule is a Guerrero temporary regulation to help control Covid, or a Blue Flag rule. We suspect it is a Guerrero regulation.

If the no chairs or umbrellas on the beach is a Guerrero rule, when is it going to change? When the beaches are covered this winter with Canadian and US tourists who are going to be extremely upset that they can't spend their winter on the beach? Someone isn't thinking. There is every indication that the international visitors are going to be very thick this winter. They spend money, it is important to not fry them on the sand with no chairs or umbrellas.

We are very much opposed to the Blue Flag BS on Playa la Ropa.

Our question is whether the "no chairs or umbrellas" on the beach rule is a Guerrero temporary regulation to help control Covid, or a Blue Flag rule. We suspect it is a Guerrero regulation.

If the no chairs or umbrellas on the beach is a Guerrero rule, when is it going to change? When the beaches are covered this winter with Canadian and US tourists who are going to be extremely upset that they can't spend their winter on the beach? Someone isn't thinking. There is every indication that the international visitors are going to be very thick this winter. They spend money, it is important to not fry them on the sand with no chairs or umbrellas.

I suspect the pandemia rules will be incorporated into the "certificación" rules so that people are forced into using hotel and restaurant furniture and services where they have to pay a minimum fee. I also suspect the local government, who doesn't make its living from tourism, will try to ignore the foreigners, the loss of tourism, and everything else they can ignore until the LODGING OPERATORS speak up. But so far it appears many of the lodging operators are just fine with seeing locals and poorer visitors run off the beaches, though I know several who aren't. They act like they don't notice the loss of foreigners. I notice. I have letters from foreigners announcing their cancellations, including this winter from La Madera if it also gets "certified". But lodging operators who want favors from the government (condonación de pagos de impuestos, agua, etcétera) so far apparently feel compelled to stay silent. Just like they did with the downtown walkway cutting down all the tall palm trees and almendro trees. The restaurants stayed silent because they were getting FREE LUXURY PALAPAS.

I too, may be canceling my Winter trip. Damn!

Will you kindly provide the name of the restaurant you refer to. It's easy to enter a review at Trip Advisor

Keith

Will you kindly provide the name of the restaurant you refer to. It's easy to enter a review at Trip Advisor

Keith

Blame needs to be shared among all the property and business owners who stood by and did nothing while the government bullied this policy upon us. It isn't just one restaurant. Along the beachfront, only the Catalina still allows pets at their lodging that I'm aware of, but now they aren't allowed on the beach thanks to the self-serving short-sighted local policy makers.

We need to work to get this policy vanquished. But I can't do it all by myself.

The Thompson also allows pets.

The Thompson also allows pets.

Thanks. I was unaware. They could be a useful ally if they wanted to be.

Their condos behind them that "share" the beach access are also pet friendly. We see more dogs at The Thompson than we do at the Catalina.

If we didn't have such good friends there we would be long gone. I don't think that will last forever. We have been coming since 87.

The restrictions have been enforced and in place since April 2, 2020. That is a LONG time.

Unfortunately, people’s intransigence in following them, and the lack of adequate vaccines in most of the world is going to make it last much longer.

You have plenty of time to cancel, why not wait a bit to see how things pan out?

The restrictions have been enforced and in place since April 2, 2020. That is a LONG time.

Which is why I (and others) say the restrictions have nothing to do with Covid-19 and are instead part of the ongoing privatización of Playa La Ropa. If you'll read the latest rules I posted today, it says NOTHING about beach chairs or umbrellas other than they should be at least 2 meters apart. I continue receiving and reading cancellations by nationals and foreigners due to the poor treatment by the local government and for being made to feel unwelcome at La Ropa due to these rules. Now the local government want to repeat this error on La Madera, and they will as long as I remain practically a lone voice crying out in the wilderness.