Playas VaZIHas

What is the current Mayor's plan for the muelle ?

To demolish the Capitanía del Puerto's offices and turn it into another hot cement zone big enough for her Disneylandish fiestas. The fish gallows will become a huge cement "sculpture" of a blue marlin. She simply wants to remove all that is quaint and characteristic of Zihuatanejo and replace it with her husband's gaudy painted cement and simple palm trees. This is not a project Zihuatanejo needs to spend public funds on. It's just another whim by the wife of the owner of a cement company to award themselves another public contract for millions of pesos. Her husband wants to run for mayor again so he needs funds to buy votes, even though it's supposed to be prohibited under a new law due to the obvious nepotism. But this is Guerrero where many laws simply have no teeth.

If it weren't for a couple of local families of politicians, Zihuatanejo would still be a quaint and beautiful place with undeveloped hillsides and a lot less cement, but you also wouldn't have been allowed to build on the hill where you did. Overdevelopment is why we don't enjoy the relative prosperity we used to have 30 years ago. Relying on solely a tourism economy always comes at a high cost for the original community. The Zihuatanejo cash cow can only support so many sucklings, and too many are overly greedy while too many others have come from afar. Economic Darwinism aka unbridled capitalism strikes again.