“It's just that every time we have tried, they all immediately get together and block the roads.” “We even have the court orders for eviction,” Montes de Oca said.
The attorney general of Quintana Roo, Oscar Montes de Oca, vows to evict the squatters. So it would take decades of pay for the average Mexican worker to buy one. Around Tulum, $20 per day is considered a good wage. dollars - as are entrance fees at many seaside resorts. The settlement is part of a larger, 500-acre (200 hectare) stretch of public land that was sold by city officials to largely foreign developers in the 2000s.Ĭondos on the edge of the camp - and some well inside it- now sell for $100,000 to $150,000 and are advertised in U.S. “We do not have any personal problems with the foreigners, but they should respect our rights,” he said, adding that October 2 represents a last stand for Mexicans being priced out of their own coast. “These people are not thieves they are Tulum's workforce.” It's like saying someone is stealing something that belongs to him,” said León Méndez. “How can a Mexican be an invader' in his own country? That makes no sense. Squatter leader Jose Antonio León Méndez, a welder who has lived in Cancun and Tulum for about three decades, says he - like many of the squatters who work as cooks, gardeners and bricklayers at surrounding condos and hotels - was tired of knowing he could never afford a home in towns increasingly filled with foreigners. Officials claim the “invaders” have created a semi-lawless enclave that has worsened Tulum's reputation for growing violence and threatened the vital tourism industry. As many as 250,000 people are believed to live in squatter communities on the outskirts of Cancun. But others gradually become integrated into their cities. Such land invasions are common across Mexico. It was founded in 2016 on very valuable and once-public land a few blocks off the main street in town and about 1 1/2 miles (2 kilometers) from the shore. Officials in Quintana Roo state have vowed to relocate or remove about 12,000 inhabitants of the 340-acre (137-hectare) October 2 settlement.
On a coast where unchecked resort development has already closed most public access to beaches - there are only a few public access points on the 80-mile (130 km) stretch known as the Riviera Maya - residents of the squatters' camp may have reason to ask whether poorer Mexicans will be allowed here at all. The contrast between rich and poor is stark: Gleaming white four-story condos with vaguely Mayan-sounding names and English slogans like “Live in the Luscious Jungle” and “An immersive spiritual experience” stand next to shacks made of poles, packing crates, tarps and tin roofing.Īlso Read | COVID-19-Related Deaths Rise By 35% Worldwide WHO Chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus Says ‘We Cannot Pretend Virus is Not Here’.
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