Tenacatita Update - the governor comes to La Huerta

Posted by Dobie on May 28, 2013, 7:52 am
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Last Friday about 60 residents of El Rebalsito went to La Huerta to hear the governor, Aristóteles Sandoval who came to sign an agreement between 6 municipalities of the south coast of Jalisco to work on protecting the environment (forests, rivers, lagoons, beaches, etc.) In his welcoming speech, Julian, De Niz, president of La Huerta, recalled 2 promises the governor made in La Huerta during his campaign. One was to open a regional hospital and the other was to open the beach at Tenacatita. The governor replied that as soon as the paperwork was done transferring the land, construction of the hospital would begin. As for Tenacatita, all he offered was a permanent “mesa de dialogo.” As the meeting ended, Tavo (owner of El Pollo hardware store in Agua Caliente) was able to get face to face with the governor and tell him that we wanted him to honor his promise to open the beach. The governor replied that there are legal issues, but Tavo insisted that it was a public beach that had been kidnapped. The first meeting of the “mesa de dialogo” has been scheduled for Wednesday, May 28,in Guadalajara. Needless to say we’re all disappointed in the governor’s non-action, considering his strong pro-Tenacatita stance during his campaign. How can it be that the governor of the state of Jalisco can’t open a state road leading to a federal beach where the municipality holds the concession, without having a dialogue first? Below is a translation of an article which appeared in Guadalajara’s El Occidental, the day after the event. http://www.oem.com.mx/eloccidental/notas/n2995037.htm EL OCCIDENTAL May 25, 2012 LA HUERTA - A permanent dialogue for the Tenacatita matter, is what the governor, Jorge Aristóteles Sandoval Díaz offered to the president of La Huerta and to those affected by the eviction of the beach in 2010. In his talk this Friday, during the signing of the agreement to form the Intermunicipal Group for the Environment of the South Coast of Jalisco, y reply to the president of La Huerta who reminded him of his commitment to open the beach once he took office, the state leader offered this, a dialogue. Meanwhile, two banners asked for the intervention of the Governor, and some placards were visible, along with more than 500 inhabitants of the municipalities in the area. Fausto Robles, one of the affected, at the end of the meeting, managed to approach the governor, reminding him of his promise: “I said that he made a promise in his campaign, right here in La Huerta, and we want him to comply, he promised that in the first days of his government he would open Tenacatita; I told him that these are not the first days, that almost three months have passed and he’s done nothing; we’re waiting for a reply on his part,” he explained. The governor indicated that there were legal issues. “I answered no, that it was a public beach, owned by the nation and it should be open, not kidnapped, and it’s been kidnapped and that’s a federal crime.” He indicated that next week, in La Huerta, the dialogue would begin so the matter could go forward. Lilia Rodríguez Araiza, one of the affected, showed her annoyance, saying that the State Police are still there, controlling the access to Tenacatita: “now all he says is a dialogue, nothing about getting rid of the police, but we want results,” she said.

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