What is PKS?

The cement everywhere is horrible. I don't know anyone thrilled about Zihuatanejo becoming a paved Disneyland. Why isn't the focus on a new hospital. Sure miss the good ol' days.

I couldn't agree with you more. Apparently for very selfish reasons and with much arrogance our municipal government ignores the sector of our tourism that encompasses foreigners with high purchasing power. All this so-called modernization is apparently only geared for appearance's sake and to fool local voters, not to attract actual visitors. So we keep seeing land get sold and condo projects get built, but our general prosperity continues in decline as more people with less money to spend replace our more affluent visitors who for so many years have been so generous in helping to support so many local businesses and causes but who, like you, feel Zihuatanejo is not changing for the better. Many of us locally suspect at least some of the real estate boom is allegedly associated with money laundering, and of course politicians who own cement companies would stand to benefit from selling more of their product, so why slow it down even if we're running out of water and destroying the area's natural beauty? Not for decades have we had any local politicians who understood Zihuatanejo's niche in the tourist market and marketed it correctly, a place NOT like Acapulco, Vallarta, Cancún or Los Cabos. But now it looks like we're imitating those other places. Decades ago I predicted that imitating other tourist destinations would be to our detriment, since we'll never be them, only what we are. And now we're no longer playing our strong hand by being what we are, a place NOT like those others. So most local merchants no longer enjoy sales of thousands of pesos a day as we used to. We're lucky to make enough to make ends meet. Hopefully we'll see the change we need in local leadership with next year's elections. Locals half-joke that we need to elect a mayor who owns a tree nursery instead of a cement company.