Tenacatita open for the holidays

Please come and enjoy the beaches of Tenacatita. Bring your shade umbrellas and tents for camping. The road is open for access and you will not be bothered by private security guards as in the past.The governor of Jalisco, Aristotles Sandoval has guaranteed you a safe visit and has provided security by state police. If you encounter any problems from the few private security guards, please inform the state police. At this time construction of any type even palapas are not allowed. This may change in the new year. Also, bring your own sanitation and toilets as these are limited.

Aristotle announces release of Tenacatita beach

State police shall provide the monitoring and protection of citizens. The reporter / FILE

Under the program startup "We together" in Autlán, the governor of Jalisco, Aristotle Sandoval announced that the aim of is to assume the state police surveillance and protection of citizens, as well as giving free transit for residents and tourists. '' I want to give good news when I came to the administration took the decision to release Tenacatita Beach.

Aristóteles anuncia liberación de playa de Tenacatita

Demonstration for Tencatita May 21st

There's going to be a big demonstration tomorrow evening in Guadalajara, winding up at the Televisa station at 8 PM, before the gubernatorial candidate for the PAN, Fernando Guzman Perez shows up for a scheduled interview.

Guzman Perez was an accomplice in sending state police to violently evict tourists, and locals when he was secretary to governor Emilio Marquez. Now he's running for governor. The demonstration will call attention to his actions in Tenacatita and to demand that the gate be taken down to allow free access to the beach and that Rodenas pay for all damages incurred.

For up-to-date information on Tenacatita and the demonstration, there's a new blog:

www.tenacatita-libre.blogspot.com

Dobie

Demonstration for Tenacatita in Long Beach CA

The governor of Jalisco, Emilio Marquez was in Long Beach California and Diputado Salvador Caro and people from Temacapulin and Tenacatita were there to greet him. When they said they wanted to speak with him, he said he wasn't prepared for a conversation. They waited outside the Mexican Consulate, but he never came out - he left through another door.

Lorena Sahagun said (paraphrased) that he saw them and didn't have the guts to speak with them; but what counts is that he knows that they haven't forgotten.

Mesa de Dialogo

Posted by Dobie on November 23, 2010

Hi -

We left at 11:00 pm on Sunday for another all night bus ride to Guadalajara, for the mesa de dialogo that the federal diputados were planning for noon on Tuesday (Nov. 22). About 75 people from El Rebalsito attended the event, along with maybe 100 (or more) others. It was quite a big deal - tarps set up for shade, a low platform for the diputados, several big tv screens that showed 2 videos from Tenacatita (including the one from the day the diputados came and pulled down the fence); the diputados had boxes with thousands of bumper stickers - EMILIO Regresenos Tencatita (Emilio - Give us back Tenacatita) and fliers. Before the event started we were in groups on all the nearby street corners - handing them out as vehicles stopped for red lights, and to people passing by.

There were 7 federal diputados (from 3 political parties - PRI, PRD and PAN), one local diputado and a representative of the Human Rights Commission. No one from the governor's office came (even though it's right across the street), and he said that he never received an invitation. But the diputados had a copy of the letter inviting him and with a stamp and signature showing it was received by his office. SEMARNAT (environmental agency) sent a letter saying they couldn't send anyone but supported the diputados in opening the road and the beach. And no surprise, no one from Rodenas showed up. So how can you have a dialogue, when two of the main parties involved aren't willing to meet?

For the first time since the desalojo, I think everyone felt like the diputados really understood, and really wanted to see justice prevail. Each one spoke to a different effect of the desalojo, from the loss of homes, belongings, jobs, a whole way of life, to the insecurity, the lack of peace and justice, the effect on the children, to the condition of the state of Jalisco, where the governor is incompetent and does whatever he wants.... They were quite impassioned and almost all mentioned that this was a political issue, but not a partisan one. That the commission (composed of 10 diputados) wanted to uphold the constitution and the laws of Mexico, and they would take the issue to the Supreme Court if necessary. One lamented the fact that we came all the way from El Rebalsito, and no one from the governor's office would cross the street to take part in the dialogue.

There were two very welcome pieces of news. One is that the government of La Huerta is going to get the concession to the beach (and the ocean beach), and soon. The other is that the diputados assured us that the beach will be open in time for Christmas vacation so that people can come and camp and enjoy the beach, and everyone here can get back to work, however they can - setting up tarps, umbrellas, whatever... You can imagine how happy everyone was to hear that news! It's changed the whole vibe of the town. Everyone feels more hopeful