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Horror on the coast of Oaxaca, a tourist paradise plagued by mass disappearances

In two months, 16 people have gone missing around Huatulco, Zipolite and Puerto Escondido, emblematic beaches of the Mexican Pacific. Nine bodies were found inside a car, but officials are giving no explanations

Some of the young people who went missing in Oaxaca: Rolando Evaristo, Rubén Antonio Ramos, Jacqueline Meza , Lesly Noya, Raúl Emmanuel González, Guillermo Cortes, Yamileth López and Angie Pérez.At about the same time, two other families were crying out in despair over their children’s fate in Huatulco, a paradise spot with nine bays that is considered one of the region’s jewels in the crown. A businessman from the region describes it as “a zone of tolerance.” No one — neither the population nor the authorities — reports organized crime because the latter boast of “protecting and caring for” the area: they prohibit robberies and extortion, they do not approve of drugs such as crystal meth or the rape of women, they do not allow “excesses” because that scares away the tourists and disturbs business. He had spent his entire life defending his land, Barra de la Cruz, against the real estate developments that are fighting to turn this coast into the new Pacific Riviera, much as has already happened in Cancún, Playa del Carmen, Tulum, and even Acapulco.

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