Not Good News

Ray,no wonder,its on faux news,keep reading that crap,you'll get smarter..not.

Making fun of Ray is uncalled for. The article is true. Local business owners are fed up with the municipal government's attitude of simply doing zero zip zilch nothing to combat Zihuatanejo's crime problem. Several business owners staged a public one-day shut-down of their businesses in protest. The mayor is already in campaign mode for his next political position (no re-election) and has washed his hands of any responsibility at all for the safety of Zihuatanejo's citizens and its visitors. We ALL consider his posture irresponsable and unacceptable. Comments made last week here on my Message Board regarding the mayor's unfortunate statement that "crime didn't matter since tourists would come anyway" made the local headlines.

I was taunted here recently for supposedly "not doing enough" to make things better, when the fact that I'm even still alive after all I've said and done over the past 27 years is testament enough as far as I'm concerned because I know what I've said and done and so do a lot of locals. Most folks here in Guerrero who speak out against criminals and corrupt public functionaries disappear or turn up dead. As I emphasized to a query about what's being done, I don't believe in showing one's cards before they are ready to be played and I don't believe in telling the bad guys what's being done period. That's what stupid politicians do. If some of you think that makes me rude then that's what I am. I've lived here and in other similarly lawless places for most of my life, but unlike too many good and decent folks I've known I'm still here to tell about it.