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 News from Around Banderas Bay | November 2005 
Protesters March Against Flamingos Developer
 Harold Sokolove - PVNN
| | Students from Colegio Bucerias joined residents from Bucerias and Nuevo Vallarta. | 
| | The trench had make the road impassable to all but those on foot willing to play mountain goat. |
There was a protest march around noon on Thursday, November 24, along the remains of the once-public dirt road that runs between Nuevo Vallarta and Bucerias not far from the beach.
Students from Colegio Bucerias, a private school in Bucerias, their parents, residents from Bucerias and Nuevo Vallarta, an environmental engineer from CUC and a few on-lookers were among those involved in the protest.
The protesters were only able to march as far as a large trench that had been carved out of the road, from one side to the other, effectively halting all forms of motorized traffic at that point.
It appeared that the trench had been there for awhile, making the road impassable to all but those on foot willing to play mountain goat and required adventuresome bicyclists to dismount and carry their bicycles through the deep trench.
At issue were questions the protesters had surrounding the legality of the sale of the property 5 years ago by the municipality to the Flamingos developer, thereby limiting beach access in the area.
"The last Governor sold our streets," one protester said.
| | Student leader from Colegio Bucerias. |
"The new Governor, Ney Gonzalez, has to do something right away or tourism will be affected," another protester added.
There is the fear that expansion of privatization could continue to decrease public access to the area's beaches according to members of the protest group.
According to several of the Colegio teachers, the government representatives present were promising the crowd that they would investigate whether any rights were violated in the sale and whether the issuance of the permits followed proper procedure.
The government representatives assured the crowd they would be reporting back their findings to the group.
It was unclear what effect the closing of this portion of the road to the public would have on announced plans to extend the road northward over the Bucerias arroyo to the city's plaza. |
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