Full public access to Tenacatita Bay is still being restricted even though the federal concession for the beach zone was returned into the hands of the La Huerta municipality last week.
State and auxiliary police officers – at least ten of them, plus four dogs, according to one report – guard the fenced-off 42-hectare plot of disputed land bordering the attractive beach that Guadalajara businessman Jorge Villalobos wants to transform into a luxury tourist complex.
Even though the bitter two-decade land dispute between the local farm cooperative (ejido) Jose Maria Andres Villalobos is still dragging on through the Mexican court system, residents of nearby El Rebalsito – many evicted from their beachside homes and businesses in a violent early morning police operation in August 2010 – say there is now no legal impediment for the access gate to the beach not to come down.
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