While police are trying to evict squatters so towering condos can be built next to wood and tarpaper shacks, residents are fighting back, saying they are tired of foreign investors excluding local people from their own coast
Blocks of apartments stand next to a large squatters' settlement known as October 2, in Tulum, Quintana Roo state, Mexico, Thursday, Aug. 4, 2022. Quintana Roo state officials have vowed to relocate or remove about 12,000 inhabitants of the settlement, erected in 2016 on very valuable and once public land located between the town of Tulum and its beach.
Officials in Quintana Roo state have vowed to relocate or remove about 12,000 inhabitants of the 340-acre October 2 settlement. It was founded in 2016 on very valuable and once-public land a few blocks off the main street in town and about 1 1/2 miles from the shore. “We do not have any personal problems with the foreigners, but they should respect our rights,” he said, adding that October 2 represents a last stand for Mexicans being priced out of their own coast.
Mateo Cruz, who rents a room for himself and his two children in the settlement, shows off the angry bruise on his thigh where he says he was hit by a police tear gas cannister . Lucio Hernández, the state police chief, says government security cameras have detected that many of the drug dealers in Tulum use the squatters’ camp as a hideout.
The squatters obviously are a political group — currently aligned with President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s Morena party — and in a sense, many do see their humble shacks as winning the lottery.
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