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We have to look out for ourselves and each other here. I never ever count on police protection. Even the tourist police are basically useless. We walk to the pier frequently. Fishing is supposed to be banned there, but it is fortunately tolerated, and I have no problem with that, but especially the end of the pier smells like urine. Why men don't simply pee in the water I can't imagine. I can only guess that women are also peeing on the pier. But it's symptomatic of the lack of seriousness by the municipal government to take care of our brand new pier that is already showing signs of deteriorating. I hate seeing my taxes wasted. And I hate corrupt and unserious politicians.

Would it be unwise for you to run for office on that platform? You are someone with roots deep in the community. You married into a family that has been here for generations. Certainly the people are hungry for what you would offer them. Would you fear for your safety?

A candidate for presidente municipal must have been born in Mexico.

Of course I would fear for my safety. This is Guerrero, a state run by caciques where the federal government has historically had little reach. After so many decades of essential lawlessness, we still have a long way to go to have any real semblance of law and order, especially here in Guerrero where justice is historically a laughable mostly unknown concept. Frankly, I'm still amazed so many of you foreigners who know so little about this region would "buy" property here and want to live here. Our only saving grace is that, unlike other places in Guerrero, Mexico and the world, so far our local people are exceptionally good people. But as more people move here from other places, our local goodness becomes diluted by people with more vices than virtues.

The other day a Gringa posted the following message on a Facebook post I made showing a photo of fishing pangas and Playa Principal: "The beauty of Zihuatanejo Bay is marred by the stench of death from all the fishermen killing all the precious fish in the bay." I asked her why she moved from the USA to our fishing town if she felt that way, but I never received nor expected an answer. Too many foreigners bring their cultural baggage with them here and try to impose it on others. I've seen this a lot during my life. Here, in the U.S. Virgin Islands and all up and down Florida. People move to "paradise" only to find out it isn't the one they had in their head, which is the only place paradise really exists. The lucky ones make it back alive to wherever they came from.