ON BACALAR'S DEFENSE. COLLOQUIAL VERSION

order to prevent potential conflict when the official measurements and plans were obtained. “…We, who live around the lagoon, have placed hopes in tourism development.

We agree that there must be rules, but they must be agreed harmoniously between citizens and authority..." Héctor Peña, president of the Friends of Xul Ha Association.

But it was the period of Roberto Borge Angulo's government. Human rights violations, spoils and other crimes committed, covered up by the state government were common, so it was better to reach a good agreement, than to get involved in a bad lawsuit. Somehow many of the users of the Lagoon saw APIQROO as "the lesser of evils". “…In the end we felt that it was preferable to have APIQROO, then an administrator of a Protected Natural Area ... that it was preferable APIQROO to have an PNA, and we no longer moved him at least with APIQROO we could reason and he did not limit or harass us as an PNA would. APIQROO only messes with navigation or docks. We knew that it was not legal what they did with their concession, but we had nothing left but to suck ... at least it wasn't a reservation..." Provider of tourist services. 62 years old. 30 years of working in the lagoon.

Finally, the installation of the APIQROO Operations Committee for the Bacalar Lagoon was carried out, in which the service providers and members of the community were given the opportunity to participate and an agreement was reached to let APIQROO operate the nautical aspects and the related in the Bacalar Lagoon.

When one carefully reads the chapters of the Regulations of Operations one realizes that a master program of port development is contemplated, aspects of maintenance and in the scope of application of the rules the schedules in which navigation can be carried out are clearly established, aspects such as the types of vessel are clearly established in a very specific and well-defined way, the draft, the type of pier according to its use, communication and rule 23, which corresponds to maximum and minimum speeds within the lagoon and some sites of restriction to navigation, aspects of port services, procedures, maritime maneuvers in the lagoon, safety and hygiene aspects are contemplated and in that aspect even safety is contemplated and in case of damage or accidents the specific procedures.

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