Jaltemba Times

For the past couple of years we've been extremely disturbed over the seeming privatization of most of the beaches in our neighbourhood.

Today a friend pointed me to a posting from 4 February on the Chacala Life blog entitled "Uncontrolled Beach Privatization" which is an English translation of an earlier newspaper article.  It explains a lot, in depressing detail.

Friends have urged me to post this report from April 2002, which I emailed to several of them after Lenor and I got our first Nayarit driver's licences.  On subsequent renewals at the Transito office in Tepic and at a mobile office in a bus in Guayabitos we've found the process to be much more organized, streamlined and professional than it was the first time.

14 April 2002

Yesterday was a big day for Leonor y mí: we bought shiny new Mexican drivers' licences!  The Secretaria General de Gobierno of the Gobierno del Estado de Nayarit sent its Dirección General de Transito y Transporte on its semiannual pilgrimage here to little backwoods La Peñita to sell drivers' licences to anybody with the cash and the desire to drive legally.

Welcome to Jaltemba Times, a community website for the towns along Jaltemba Bay on the Pacific coast of Nayarit, México: La Peñita de Jaltemba, Rincón de Guayabitos, and Los Ayala.

We invite the involvement of not just residents but visitors and anyone else with an interest in our area, in México in general, and in other things we have in common. We hope to broaden and elevate the level of discourse along our Bay.

With your interest and participation this website will become an engaging and informative online community.  Submissions are welcome: event reports, want ads, comments, informative articles, literary pieces, whatever.

Terry Coomber