It is good living here. The air is clean and there are plenty of fish in the lagoon and the sea,” says José García Gutiérrez as he guts half a dozen freshly caught sea bass with a large knife in his backyard. Behind him, a pelican, searching for prey in Coyuca Lagoon, swoops against a background of wild palms and mangroves. It certainly seems hard to argue with the 31-year-old’s assertion that he has found the ideal spot to settle with his young wife and one-year-old son. Coming from the impoverished fishing village of San Marcos—just a few miles down the coast, near the seething tourist resort of Acapulco—García Gutiérrez’s prospects of ever owning his own house must have... [Log in to read more]