Access to Tenacatita beach reopened

MEXICOWANDERER wrote:
I would have faith in the "Development Brings Prosperity" thesis except too many hotels in Mexico are of foreign ownership. Oh the name on the paper is Mexican but the money goes offshore in too many cases.

I could give a ratz burro about wealthy Mexicans but when they shut off access to the average Mexicano that gets my goat. The people who exist 360 days a year to have five days at the playa during semana santa should never have their rights purchased out from under them. Big inclusive resorts are designed from putting green to bedspread to keep 99.99% of their clientele's dinero in-house. By hook, by crook. Go to Los Cabos and see. Go to Can't-Cun or Puerto Vallarta or for god's sake to Barra de Navidad to the monstrosity Gran Bay out on the peninsula. The maids there make 125 pesos a day in a place with three hundred dollar a day rooms.

I'm not for or against any of this. But show me a place where a maid makes good money in any country. Most of the maids I have met in my travels in the U.S. are illegal and make about 7 bucks an hour. Take into account the cost of living in the U.S. it is still a ****** wage.

But think of the benefits an employee gets for working for a Mexican company. The ability to get a federally backed home loan at a fixed 6.9%, medical insurance for everyone living under their roof, to see a pension at the end of the road, profit sharing, paid vacation. All of this is provided by the law.

OTOH, each one of these venders qualifies to have all of the above if they are willing to pay for it under the laws provided by Hacienda (SAT) if they register for a CURP (Clave Única de Registro de Población). They claim the amount they want as an average of their monthly income, pay a small tax, can make deductions and with this, enter Infonavit (first home loan purchase), IMSS (social medicine) AFORES (401K), small business loans through PyMeS ( Pequeña y Mediana Empresa (FONDO PYME), and more.

There is a solution for everything. But you have to want it, and you have to know about it.