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Greenpeace couldn’t express itself often enough and said several times that the information presented in their work wasn’t directed against the municipality of Jalisco and that they are only trying to point out the problems of all beaches in Mexico to find and suggest new solutions.

In response to the accusations made by Greenpeace (greenpeace.org), the mayor of Puerto Vallarta, Javier Bravo Carvajal criticized the non-profit organization Greenpeace of having unknown interests with the purpose of harming the port’s infrastructure. Greenpeace says that it has auto sufficient and independent politics with no economic interests and that the subjects they work on are ecological and are treated with absolute scientific rigor facing the Mexican society. More specifically the organization explained that the campaign that is being realized in different municipalities with beaches, has the objective of clean beaches in the entire country.

Greenpeace hopes that the last test results of the beaches of Jalisco, which were realized on the 6th of June, will be published in the same beach area instead of the internet.

For the World Health Organization, swimming in seawater with a higher level of bacterial feces than 137 parts per milliliter of enterococci means a risk of severe diseases like paratifoidea or infectious hepatitis.

Greenpeace pointed out that their presented information of their tests has not the objective to act against Puerto Vallarta or any other particular entity. “We only want to show everybody the problem in all beach areas of the country so we can find solutions because clean beaches are important for everybody”.

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Dear Greenpeace,

We here at Vallarta Blog Wexico, admire your efforts to point out some of Vallartas biggest problems and we are not talking about the Beaches only, but about a common problem in Mexico like the corruption on cost of the environment and Vallarta’s traditional life.

In the past years, Vallarta has changed drastically. More and more people come to live here and more stores, buildings and cars are drawn on the maps of Vallarta. Only a few people have the patience and ear to hear and recognize the damage that is being done because everybody is focused on themselves. Almost half of Vallarta has worked for Vallarta Adventures, Timeshare Giants and tourist driven companies. Everybody relies on tourism and everything is growing fast enough to loose the picture. Soon enough Vallarta will be a second Acapulco and the ones in power now will be drowned in money.

What happened to the hundreds of people that protested against the illegal destruction of the historic parks in Vallarta? They are forgotten now. They stood up against the police attemt at 6 am in the morning to destroy the parks and anybody in their way ended up in jail or beaten up. What happened to the Human Rights reports that were filed from dozens of protesters? Thousands of flyers and information was given out through radiostations and local ecologists, but the only response they got was what the government had put into their heads: Puerto Vallarta needs modernization. It has to evolve and we need to construct parking lots on top of historical traditional parks. Too many automobiles need parking lots, no matter what the costs are.

History repeats itself and if we have learned something about it it is that it is not enough to just inflate a huge toilet for a few minutes in the early hours of the morning, so nobody notices it. Unless you are trying to warn the government of what you are capable, this event was totally confusing to many people here in Vallarta, which is why we hope that the next time you will make sure that locals and non locals have the possibility in joining your campaign, which means you have to speak out through the radio, newspapers and do more than just a quick photoshooting on the beach.

We are looking forward to Greenpeace’s results and will keep up to date with this issue. Anybody that has more information on these subjects, please don’t hesitate in commenting or contacting us.