Barcelo Hotel, Mismaloya
Mismaloya Beach, south of the Hotel Barcelo
My plan, today, was to visit the
Botanical Gardens, and then a little beach time (and internet), in Mismaloya,
but passing through it on the way to the Gardens, for half a mile protestors
lined the main highway. I stopped and spoke with an American protestor, who
explained some and that there is a meeting today, so thinking I could get back
and speak with some people about 2:00 or so after the meeting, I went to the
Gardens, walked around some, had lunch, and then decided I could think of
nothing else, so back to Mismaloya.
The entire town was closed and nearly
empty of people – including the beach palapa restaurants. They had all gone to
the meeting – in Boca de Tomatlan, about ten miles behind me. The meeting would
be in Spanish, and I am no good at waiting, so I asked around for more info and
plan to go back tomorrow to get the full scoop since I know the Mayor of that
community and several top businessmen.
So tomorrow I hope to file a more
detailed report, but this is the little I now know. The family who owned the
enormous Barcello Hotel on the beach, sold it but has papers going back more
than 50 years showing they own the land the entire town – at least to the
Pacific side of the highway – was built on, and that would have included all
the houses that John Huston built for cast and crew, but dissolved due to salt
mixed into the sand of the mortar.
The hotel itself was far better built
and the owner, said to live in Guadalajara, rebuilt its roof in the last few
years and takes reasonably good care of that dormant, fenced-off property which
is NOT included in this situation. Here is my report of my guided tour through
it by one of John Huston’s Mexican friends:
Also see: http://theweathercontinues.blogspot.mx/2014/01/repost-missing-night-of-iguana-content.html
Today’s meeting included the Mayor of
Puerto Vallarta as well as the one from Guadalajara (which makes no sense to
me, since that city is five hours away, although we are all in Jalisco State).
I am told the PV Mayor very much supports the townspeople keeping their homes,
and while I don’t know all the details, property ownership in Mexico would seem
BEYOND UNDERSTANDABLE to anyone only familiar with owning property in the USA.
You see, on unused land meeting
certain qualifications, Mexican nationals can simply squat and after a number
of years claim ownership – EXACTLY why the owner of the Night of the Iguana Hotel
has fenced off and guards the property from squatters.
So, let me find out more tomorrow. My
impression is that a decision of what to do would not happen at the meeting
today, but will happen soon. Then, everyone in the village would have two weeks
to completely evacuate, getting no compensation for their developments (all to
be torn down for a huge luxury hotel), whether homes or businesses – and no
help to where they might go.
>>> IN OTHER NEWS:
1. MAJOR new corruption problems on my
computer – until I called Testosteroni in New York and described them. They
immediately stopped after a re-boot. Someone was listening. My modem is finally
showing all lights, meaning I should have internet, but cannot connect, so
after tomorrow’s news gathering, I’ll try again to get Telecable out here to
fix it.
2. I watched the DVD of Del Shore’s My
Sordid Life last night. And Del is SUCH a good writer, but I still
think he is STUCK in this “Sordid” franchise, which is messing with his ability
to think right – the reason being that it is so NEGATIVE about Southern
Christians, both gay and straight, which he properly made several things of as
art, but after a while, you just cement that kind of foolishness into your
consciousness.
You see, Del delivers sometimes even
shocking material, but he NEVER addresses the real problem, the belief that Jesus
or anyone else could actually be the literal son of God – Jesus only claimed to
be the Son of Man, meaning like man is the evolved son of animal, Jesus was
what we are ALL meant to next evolve into. He always claimed to be a Jew and
that anyone following him had to convert first to Judaism.
This continued after his death for a
while – but all those Gentile adult men got SICK of the pain of circumcision
(and I don’t blame them for that!!!), and figured out a way to break off so
they could stop THAT!!!
TRUTH!!! Jesus resisting a Christian Republican
And while there is no SPECIAL harm in
believing in the divinity of Jesus, it starts a lifelong habit of being able to
believe anything that can’t stand the tests of Reason or Love.
I believe this is why Del takes none
of my warnings about his friends in Puerto Vallarta, whom I believe are deeply
into narco-trafficking, seriously. And worse than that, Del emailed me the
story of how his whole town in Texas, but on the Mexican border, BLEW UP years
ago when it was discovered that the very best Christian people were TOTALLY
into narco-trafficking (politicians, ministers, businesspeople), and in Del’s
opinion, it RUINED the town.
Now, decades later, Del is of the
generation prone to all of this, but not being that sort of person, he refuses
to see that his successful theater-owning friends are involved.
‘Tis a pity!!!
Scott
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