“There is no room for abuses in the state,” ratifies Governor Enrique Alfaro on his three-day work tour of the southern region.
The dispute is a ten-year conflict between the ejidatarios of El Rebalse de Apazulco and representatives of the company Rodenas S.A. de C.V., after the company evicted about a thousand people from the beach with the use of public force, leveled their homes, and declared the beaches private, cordoned off with roadblocks and security guards.
Upon arriving at the community of El Rebalsito in Tenacatita, La Huerta, the Governor declared during the inauguration of the Ignacio Zaragoza Elementary School that free passage to the beaches of Jalisco will be guaranteed, because he pledged his commitment to the ejidatarios, where he said "there will be no room for abuses in the State."
“It is a good time to send a clear message, from here at the Rebalsito, in Tenacatita, that the tables that we installed in the Government of Jalisco to try to reach an agreement regarding the issue of the closures that were made on the beach, and that the way in which this conflict has been handled by those who assume themselves as owners and the ejido has to come to an end,” declared the president.
At the Ignacio Zaragoza elementary school, he expressed his support for the community for this dispute inherited for years in this site of Costalegre, where he mentioned that the beaches of Jalisco will be for the people of Jalisco.
"I have tried to create conditions to reach an agreement, there is in the dialogue the possibility of finding solutions. But if the businessmen, (with) whom we sit at the table, do not have the slightest will, and are simply looking to evade the responsibility of building conditions for an agreement, I want to send a message in front of all of you: The Government of Jalisco is very clear on which side we are going to be, and we are going to be on the side of the people who have fought for their rights, we need a fair agreement,” he specified.
"We are not going to allow, I order it to be said clearly, that there are private police guarding the accesses to the beaches. It is over, so that it is registered and so that it is understood," he concluded.