"the only local person"

Yup Stace, with all those "squatters" up there in them there hills, you should cancel your trip. I've been coming to the area since 1987 and Rob is the only local person that I've heard that is so obsessed with the poor people who have taken up residence in the hills. Oh, I'm sure there are many others who are not thrilled with it either, but I've never talked to anyone who has said they will no longer go there because of the squatters or feel that the area is no longer desirable because of them.

By the way, this is not unique to Zihua. It happens all over the world including the occupancy of city owned abandoned homes in the US in addition to bridge overpasses and government owned parklands. These aren't animals invading your turf, eating your crops or kill your livestock. They are people who get up every day, trying to survive till the next and protecting a family if they have one.

I really have to wonder why you pontificate so on things you don't understand and make such statements with the intent to disparage me? Here in Guerrero most groups of squatters aren't the poor needy people you seem to believe they are. It's a profession. Professional "organizers" manipulating poor folks along with providing proxy squatters to get their piece of the free pie. Get title, sell and move on. On lands recently titled there are now multi-story apartment buildings and even some luxury homes are being built. Where's that poor squatter? Oh, they've sent their proxy squatters to a different area to steal more land because it's an election year.

This is a major local problem that is discussed regularly by citizens everywhere and is frequently in the news, including local morning radio talk shows. Pretty much everyone except the politicians and the squatters are strongly against the theft of our hillsides. Perhaps you haven't noticed, but in the Zihuatanejo-Ixtapa area there are no squatters in Ixtapa or on ejido lands or on more easily habitable and serviceable lands off the hillsides and outside of the bay. It's a SCAM. And it happens thanks to greed, corruption, simulation and intentional bureaucratic impossibility in our government.