No, that's no surprise, but I found
THIS ARTICLE interesting. When you're soaking up the sun and having margaritas placed in your hand on demand, it's hard to think about who might have been removed so you could enjoy those things. But I suppose all "progress" does the same thing. Good thing? Bad thing? Hard to say, I think.
This fella's still trying to hold on:
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Developers come to Mezo's 700-by-100-meter slice of land every few months, he says. "They always say, 'It will be so much money, you will be able to take your family and live abroad, or wherever you want,'" he says, driving his blue motorboat to pick up his 6-year-old granddaughter from school on a recent day. "I don't want to live anywhere else. This is where I want to live."
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