¡Protejamos Nuestras EspeZIHes!

At the Mayor´s Thursday announcement party for this public "destruction" project, he didn´t dare to answer the question many are asking: Why do this project now, at the very peak of the tourist season? Why not wait until April, after Easter, when tourism has dropped off?

Folks aware of this "renewal project" ask: What´s wrong with the old surface? Clearly, there´s nothing wrong with it, save a few bumps and hollows. In fact the present, attractive cobblestone surface is barely 10 years old. The mayor, in his remarks yesterday, actually apologized to the former mayor, whose project the cobblestones were, for tearng it all up!

Clearly, many of the features that foreign tourists find attractive around Zihua-- be it crocs at La Ropa or the funky cobblestone walking spaces in the downtown core -- do not fit in with City Hall´s vision of transforming Zihua into just another glittering, glossy travel magazine photo op.