Bahía de Banderas, Nayarit, México: A “World Class Dump”.

Trash all over the place, … many of the beaches littered.

Illegal garbage dumps everywhere.

The Municipal Administration denies that there is a problem.

The new urban development plan doesn´t even mention the issue.

 

There are more than 80 clandestine dumps in the municipality. Many of them are not located or identified as a problem. 

Several near rivers, where rain discharges toxic liquid waste that runs down the rivers into the sea.

The person in charge (Matías Verdín Heras, Dirección de Ordenamiento Territorial, Desarrollo Urbano y Medio Ambiente, busy to satisfy the demands of real estate developers, … including generating lucrative projects for the architectural consulting firm of his spouse), doesn´t know what to do with these dumps. 

Jaime Cuevas, the municipal president (who just lost the election when he was trying to run for the third time), .... denying that this represents a problem, also unable to brake the wave of rising insecurity in the municipality.

His administración unable to come up with EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS that tries to change people´s mindset that considers "littering" as normal and socially acceptable.

The new Urban Development Plan created by the municipal Planning Institute (IMPLAN), headed by a women lawyer that never in her life had written such thing, doesn´t even mention the issue.

The new administration of Bahía de Banderas, 

with a gigantic task ahead.

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TIRADEROS CLANDESTINOS: No existe un inventario de los aprox. 80 tiraderos clandestinos del municipio, no se han identificado como problema. Por supuesto no se ha definido ninguna estrategia, ni elaborado un plan de como “manejarlos”. Ni se tiene una idea de cómo combatir la mala costumbre de sembrar grandes partes del paisaje de nuestro municipio con basura.

Sin grupos de ciudadanos “con orgullo para su comunidad”, que existen en muchos poblados del municipio, la acumulación de la basura sería todavía peor. 

 

En varias comunidades de la costa sur de NAYARIT hay actividades por parte de la sociedad civil organizada para recoger la basura y reciclarla. 

 

Estas iniciativas en su mayoría son organizadas y financiadas por extranjeros. 

 

Pero también hay grupos formados por ciudadanos locales preocupados por un ambiente limpio y sano, que asumen la responsabilidad, que debería de tener el Ayuntamiento de Bahía de Banderas. 

 

Sin embargo, dichos grupos no pueden hacer todo.

Bahía de Banderas, Riviera Nayarit, NO es un destino de Clase Mundial.

 

La nueva administración de Bahía de Banderas, NAYARIT, con una tarea gigantesca.

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CASE STUDY: Beginning of May a group of volunteers spent 6 hours cleaning one of the larger illegal dumps on the road between Higuera Blanca and Sayulita. 

Within hours after finishing this great example of community work a van of Grupo CARSO* unloaded its debrie exactly at the very same place that just had been cleaned.

 

*Grupo CARSO is owned by Carlos Slim, the richest person of México (Telmex, Sanborns, Sears/Mex., Condumex, Office Max, Televisa and many others).

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For an earlier version of this article please see: https://rivieranayaritone.blogspot.com/2021/05/bahia-de-banderas-nayarit-mexico-world.html