Once Upon A Time

In 1937 the Mexican president appropriated app. 3.180 acres from a hacienda in Quimixto, including amongst many other sites, the area of Mismaloya.
All was quiet for thirty-plus years till 1964, when the ejido signed an agreement that excluded Mismaloya and surrounding area.
After that, with regular intervals, the ejido has been trying to renege on this agreement, and has just as regularly been denied by the courts.
That Vallarta rose to prominence and lucrative tourist trade in the sixties and skyrocketing landvalues might have something to do with wanting to change back.
The latest court decree of Nov. 7 08, tells the inhabitants of the shantytown at the bottom of my hill and next to the sea, to vacate and move to ejido land in Boca de Tomatlan.
They are still here.
Now, all this I got from a pamphlet I found on the street, and I am not too certain as to some of the facts since this was in Spanish, and mine is none too good.
The dates I am certain of though. Numbers are the easy part.
All this, if indeed I got it right, goes a long way to explain the banners, the meetings, the loud speakers and general feeling of unease in the shantytown.
As I see it, it all comes down to lucre.
Filthy lucre.