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this section:  Playa Ensenada in San Carlos photos by Eric Jackson Members of a fishing cooperative
that has operated for more than 40 years on Playa Ensenada in San
Carlos --- which has been a fishing community far longer than any
living person can remember --- fear that they will be displaced by the
plans of a company owned by Housing Minister Gabriel Diez to build a
tourism complex and four high-rise beachfront residential towers. The
plan is also controversial for other reasons. The people in the dozen
or so households near the proposed development don't like the idea of
noise, traffic and overburdened infrastructures disturbing the peace.
Environmentalists and anti-corruption groups are appalled at the
flagrant conflicts of interest in the Housing Ministry approving the
minister's project and the insulting excuse for an environmental permit
review. But for the moment it's the tourist facilities that are being
built, and those elicit far fewer objections than two 24-story
beachfront towers and two 20-story ones.
 This is a privatized rehabilitation of a failed public tourism facility  This fence is well back from the water, so as to allow the public to use the beach  The fishing village is ancient, but the present cooperative is about 40 years old  A quiet country lane --- or the driveway to 88 floors of apartments?   This is the small water main, alongside a little bridge, that would serve the massive new development  A mangrove forest that had been cut down, and is starting to grow back, at the mouth of the stream that flows beneath the bridge shown above. The sewer pipe for the town of San Carlos empties into this stream and the mangroves served as a natural cleansing filter for the waste water. The partial destruction of the mangroves added to pollution on the beach, and by all appearances the proposed development will completely do away with the remaining mangroves. That's highly illegal, but the environmental laws protecting mangroves are methodically disregarded under the Torrijos administration Also in
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