More and more of late I am getting the feeling that Baja California, north and south, is suiciding itself. There seems to be no end to the serious
problems of corrupt police, dangerous criminals, lack of potable water, lack of sewage disposal facilities, a countryside that looks like a garbage
dump when it should look like paradise, politicians who don't care and a public that is either too dumb to care or who have given up trying to make
anything change for the better.
By allocation of resources through agencies like Fonatur it is obvious that the Mexican establishment has made the determination that Mexico's
economic future is going to depend on high-end tourism and recreation. What they either forget or fail to appreciate is that high-end people did not
get to be high-end people by being tasteless and stupid. They are accustomed to the finest the world has to offer in the way of tourist amenities.
They are not going to patronize places where raw sewage is allowed to run onto the beaches and estuaries (San Jose del Cabo and Todos Santos), where,
to go anywhere, they have to be crammed into unsafe taxis driven by crooks and cretins, where the police are more dangerous and venal than the
criminals, and where the roadsides and vacant lots look like untended garbage dumps.
What's going on in the Baja now is not going to work. The "infrastructure" -- both physical and human -- where it exists at all, is rotten. And
nothing is going to change until Mexicans start to grow up and attend to their responsibilities like mature people. I don't see that happening.
Fulano's recitation of what those disgusting cops did to the tourists whose spending supports the economy in Cabo speaks volumes.
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