ApreZIHar Lo Que Tenemos

Odd that many locals are thankful for the changes JSA has made.

As always, one has to view any change based on their experience versus a believed to be collective thought.

Yes, and a little less than half the USA wants a president with 76 federal indictments against him who likely sold the USA out to Russia and Saudi Arabia, and they believe the current president is the more corrupt of the two.

I assert no collective thought. No idea why you would make such a comment. And the public was never consulted on any project including the current one.

Many "locals" aren't locals. The hillside invaders whom he has helped remain on the lands they stole and to get title to them are of course beholden to him. Poverty and a lack of education makes people easily manipulable. So does the ability to "pardon" or give huge discounts on the local taxes one pays and to threaten those who criticize him. He's bought off all the local newspapers so that they publish only praise for him, but I'm not for sale.

What changes are you referring to? Paving 3 meters more of the downtown beach and cutting down its most beautiful trees? Putting so many restrictions on our most popular beaches that almost no locals feel welcome at them anymore? Allowing the bars to continue driving local families from downtown Zihuatanejo? Doing zero zip zilch nada nothing to get local crime under control? I just don't get the feeling you're keeping up with local events, especially those that can't be discussed in public. And being a foreigner, you're not exactly someone with whom locals will be frank and honest any more than Cubans will be honest with tourists on their island. Speaking a little Spanish isn't enough reason for local residents to open up about extremely sensitive local matters.

Even if "many locals" support the apparent acts of corruption and self enrichment of the current mayor, I don't.