Another expat property owner has been caught apparently trying to bogart the beach.
And the confrontation was televised. Yucatan’s Telesur network broadcast images of what they characterized as a “gringo” guarding the sand in front of his Chuburna beach house.
The news follows some bad publicity for foreigners in Santa Clara, on the other side of Progreso. There, a couple from the United States allegedly built a fence stretching into the surf to prevent the rest of the public from passing in front of their beach house.
“It turns out that on Sunday I went to the beach in Chuburna and it turns out that this gringo did not want us to bathe in front of his house, because it belongs to him … he sat at his little table to take care that no one comes near, how they see this the authorities should see these gringos who are owners of everything. What if a Mexican goes to their land as they treat us,” wrote “Gladys” Facebook.
One man replied joking that he could retaliate by organizing a large beach party in front of the home.
Under the constitution, the beach in Mexico belongs to everyone, and cannot be blocked off by a property owner and marked “private.”
All beaches in Mexico are publicly-accessible federal property and anyone has access to them anytime. Exceptions to the access rule include stretches of beachfront reserved for military use.
Brie says
We were not invited here. We need to respect this countries rules. If those gringos decided to move here they should be fined for trying to privatise a public area. Do these two also try to throw people out from restaurants or reserve the restaurant because they think it’s their entitlement?
GO BACK FROM WHERE YOU CAME and see if you can pull this kind of behavior in that country.