Posesionarios de Terrenos de la Salinas?

Over on Jose Morelos, atop (I think) the dried-out dredgings from Las Salinas, there's a group sitting under a large tent that has banners proclaiming:

"Colonos de la Salinas de Zihuatanejo A.C."

and

"Asociacion Civil de Posesionarios de Terrenos de la Salinas"

Que pasa?

Folks who forgot they were paid for the land they stole around 40 years ago. The lagoon used to be simply a huge mud puddle, but in the early 70's mangroves began growing there and Mother Nature worked some magic so that instead of being a nasty mudhole it began to look kind of nice, like a lagoon. So some unscrupulous folks decided "hey, before folks get hip around here I'll just claim that land for me" and for years no one ran them off land that had been gained from the sea, technically speaking, that should not be habitable. So about 25 years ago when the marina project started up the government expropriated the land they had claimed and paid them to move off it back to their original homes. When the recent dredging project occurred they removed their symbolic shack that had been used to demarcate what they were still claiming, so when the project was over the local government decided enough of this funny stuff and removed them by force when they tried to return and build a new shack. At least that's the best condensed version of this story I've been able to piece together.

This region has a long history of stuff like this: protesters and squatters who protest and protest until they get paid off numerous times by governments reluctant to simply apply the law or to use public force.