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In October, two tourists - one a California travel blogger born in India and the other German - were caught in the apparent crossfire of rival drug dealers and killed at a restaurant along Tulum’s main avenue. Street-level drug dealing is behind many of the killings in the October 2 camp - just as it is in the rest of Tulum. Given the cost of tourist-oriented taxis and bus lines, commuting from a new settlement could cost workers a quarter of their daily wages. “We are not going to allow them to keep selling the land to foreigners while they send us locals, who have lived in Quintana Roo for 15, 20 or 30 years, to live 20 kilometers (12 miles) away in the woods,” he said. Asked what would be done about the other 30%, he answered, “Other means will be applied.” “This is going to cause 70% of these people to leave willingly, with the certainty of having a decent place to live,” Montes de Oca said.

… The businessmen are going to contribute money to build houses.”

Montes de Oca says officials plan to relocate the squatters: “We are going to offer them lots away from this area, provided by the state government. It was founded in 2016 on very valuable and once-public land a few blocks off the main street in town and about 1 1/2 miles (2 kilometers) from the shore. Officials in Quintana Roo state have vowed to relocate or remove about 12,000 inhabitants of the 340-acre (137-hectare) October 2 settlement. On a coast where unchecked resort development has already closed most public access to beaches - there are only a few public access points on the 80-mile (130 km) stretch known as the Riviera Maya - residents of the squatters’ camp may have reason to ask whether poorer Mexicans will be allowed here at all. The contrast between rich and poor is stark: Gleaming white four-story condos with vaguely Mayan-sounding names and English slogans like “Live in the Luscious Jungle” and “An immersive spiritual experience” stand next to shacks made of poles, packing crates, tarps and tin roofing. The attempt ended when wind shifted the gas back on to officers, who retreated under a hail of rocks. In the latest clash on July 27, police accompanying a backhoe fired tear gas and tried to knock down some squatters’ homes in the shadow of a new, balconied condo building. While police are trying to evict squatters so towering condos can be built next to wood and tarpaper shacks, residents are fighting back, saying they are tired of foreign investors excluding local people from their own coast. TULUM, Mexico (AP) - Unchecked development has hit this once laid back beach town on Mexico’s Caribbean coast so hard that developers are now eager - even desperate - to build condominiums and hotels in a shantytown.