Mexico shuts Cancun beach, alleges sand was stolen - not a joke

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap_travel/20090731/ap_tr_ge/lt_mexico_beach_closure


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Environmental enforcement officers backed by Mexican navy personnel closed off hundreds of feet (dozens of meters) of powder-white coastline in front of a hotel accused of illegally accumulating sand on its beach.

Mexico spent $19 million to replace Cancun beaches washed away by Hurricane Wilma in 2005. But much of the sand pumped from the sea floor has since washed away, leading some property owners to build breakwaters in a bid to retain sand. The practice often merely shifts sand loss to beaches below the breakwaters.

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Patron said five people were detained in a raid for allegedly using pumps to move sand from the sea floor onto the beach in front of the Gran Caribe Real Hotel. The hotel is also suspected of illegally building a breakwater that impeded the natural flow of sand onto other hotels' beaches, he said.

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Patron said he regretted any inconvenience for tourists, but said the government is planning projects to restore beaches throughout Cancun in an orderly, environmentally responsible way.

"I apologize to the tourists for this problem, but it is a question of enforcing the law," Patron said.
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wonder who owns the hotel

it is wasted money to reclaim beaches - climate change will just take it away again and then some.

[SpiralHawk]

1. "In the Latter Days, republicon-minded thugs will steal sand from the beach." - Mayan 2012 Prophecy*

* from the Occult Book of Republicon Perdition & Phariseeitism

[Warren Stupidity]

2. cancun is a tourista shithole

and also the only place in Mexico where I actually came down with the dreaded craps.

Go elsewhere. Mexico still has many wonderful places that are not american disco drunk nightmares.