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by ZihuaRob 
, Zihuatanejo, México, Monday, April 13, 2026, 21:42 (3 days ago)
The weather isn't as cool at night for sleeping as it had been. Sheets are once again optional, though with a fan on I still slept under mine as did my sweetie. The forecast calls for warmer mornings in the coming days. There has also been an increase in cloud cover, and there've been some rains in parts of Guerrero including between here and Acapulco. I'm thinking it may start raining sooner rather than later, thanks to the warming ocean. Friends in the Caribbean have been getting doused, and it's still a bit early in the season for them, too.
Another mar de fondo event is expected to arrive to our coast on the 15th, peaking on the 17th with waves from 5 to 7 ft. But today the water was mostly calm with only some very small waves in the bay that didn't seem to bother the few people I could see swimming at Playa Principal.
Public transportation rates are going to go up on the 15th. I'll try to get ahold of the official rate sheet so I can post them.
Tortillas are also going up in price, which affects most locals.
The mayor is dead set on ruining the waterfront by the pier so she can put more cement there and have bigger fiestas. She doesn't seem to care what the people think or about the actual functionality of the pier that isn't nearly as well-built as the previous one. We seem to have a cement company posing as a government. She just ruined Ixtapa's main plaza and now she's coming to do more harm in Zihuatanejo. There is zero need for what she wants to do. While much of downtown's residents clearly heard the gunfire at Las Salinas today, instead of attending to what everyone is clamoring for - BETTER PUBLIC SECURITY - she just wants to pour more cement. But politicians don't live from tourism, so what do they care if people stop coming? They just blame other politicians.
Lupita and I went to Carmelo's at the Mercado Municipal this morning as we often do, they are by far our favorite restaurant there. The rains are only a few short weeks away, and no one there knows when they'll be able to move off the street back under the roof of the mercado. Many of the mercado's comerciantes are quite disappointed with the pace of the remodeling. They sure could use the public's support right now.
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Playas VaZIHas
by Casa Juan , Monday, April 13, 2026, 22:19 (3 days ago) @ ZihuaRob
What is the current Mayor's plan for the muelle ?
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by ZihuaRob , Zihuatanejo, México, Tuesday, April 14, 2026, 10:01 (3 days ago) @ Casa Juan
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.
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by Casa Juan , Tuesday, April 14, 2026, 20:57 (2 days ago) @ ZihuaRob
The area where I built my first house was subdivided prior to the turn of the century.
A little history
by ZihuaRob , Zihuatanejo, México, Wednesday, April 15, 2026, 11:51 (1 day, 17 hours, 52 min. ago) @ Casa Juan
The area where I built my first house was subdivided prior to the turn of the century.
If your first house was above the 70-meter mark known as the Cota 70 that indicated our zonas ecológicas, then it wasn't legal to sell that land or to build there until the zoning law was changed during the trienio of Amador Campos Aburto who was mayor from 2002 to 2005. He's the politician responsible for Zihuatanejo losing its ecological zones even though there were already squatters trying to steal the lands and some unscrupulous people trying to sell them.
Jorge Allec Galeana was the mayor at the turn of the century from 1999 to 2002, and he was the last mayor we had who was adamant about protecting the zona ecológica above the Cota 70. He kept removing the squatters. I got along well with him even though I was probably the first person to tell him in a public meeting before I was actually a citizen that his "remodeling" of the waterfront was "like putting makeup on a patient dying of cancer" (yes, they were doing that even back then for the kickbacks). I was arguing back then mainly for protecting the bay from water pollution, among other problems including protecting the large shade trees along the waterfront that everyone loved, some that were being cut down for the remodeling project. I'd only been here for about ten years then, so I was still a relative newbie in the community, and a Gringo to boot, but I was Lupita's husband, and she was highly respected then as she still is today, so they welcomed me to the public meeting that was held upstairs at the original Palacio Municipal when it was next to the zócalo, now called the Cancha Municipal. He liked my boldness and intelligence. Public Administration had been one of my favorite areas of study in the universities I attended.
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by Jeannemarie , Wednesday, April 15, 2026, 06:23 (1 day, 23 hours, 19 min. ago) @ ZihuaRob
Rob, what is the best way to message the mayor and try to voice our opinions to what she is planning on doing? I sent Facebook messages in the past when her husband was mayor, but felt I was probably wasting my time. Any information you can share would be appreciated.
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by ZihuaRob , Zihuatanejo, México, Wednesday, April 15, 2026, 11:32 (1 day, 18 hours, 11 min. ago) @ Jeannemarie
Rob, what is the best way to message the mayor and try to voice our opinions to what she is planning on doing? I sent Facebook messages in the past when her husband was mayor, but felt I was probably wasting my time. Any information you can share would be appreciated.
You can get message to her via the Whatsapp feature on the website for the Municipal Government as well as her own Facebook page where I've reached her. I wish I could be more supportive of her, because I like her as a person, but our politics are very different as is our vision of Zihuatanejo.
