Posted on 07/31/2009 9:25:05 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement
MEXICO CITY – Surprised tourists found their little piece of Cancun beach paradise ringed by crime-scene tape and gun-toting sailors on Thursday.
Environmental enforcement officers backed by Mexican navy personnel closed off hundreds of feet (dozens of meters) of powder-white coastline in front of a hotel accused of illegally accumulating sand on its beach.
Mexico spent $19 million to replace Cancun beaches washed away by Hurricane Wilma in 2005. But much of the sand pumped from the sea floor has since washed away, leading some property owners to build breakwaters in a bid to retain sand. The practice often merely shifts sand loss to beaches below the breakwaters.
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IS there anything that Global Man-made Climate Change cannot do?
I wish the Mexicans were as diligent on drugs and illegals leaving Mexico....as they are about “sand”.
The signs of a Third World trashocracy
Stolen sand. It never ceases to amaze me...maybe we need to ‘bail them out.’
Even Harry Kelly wasn’t this hardcore!
Brilliant use of LE. Sand theft trumps drug cartels and murders.
Drugs being manufactured and shipped across the most porous international border on earth by government agents. The narcos have taken control of cities and some small towns are just prison camps to drug lords and have become defacto dumping grounds of human casualties. The central govt is on the brink of implosion due to the rank corruption of the drug and oil industries. The population is evacuating the country as if it was on fire because the economy is a disgrace and they would rather die in the desert than live another day in Mexico.
How do they address these problems? They roust a hotel and punish the only money making industry remaining in the country does not have a daily body count, for moving sand.
Sounds like an Obama acolyte to me.
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