A really good article about a bunch of terrible people trying to colonize Acapulco, and mostly failing.
I can’t imagine the mindset of someone who would want to join an expat commune composed entirely of cryptocurrency grifters, fad diet gurus, white dreadlocked dope dealers, antivaxxers and antisemitic conspiracy theorists.
Their money and white privilege protected them from the kind of violence ordinary Mexicans are forced to experience, at least for a while...
Most Americans know Acapulco as a vacation town. The city is home to beautiful beaches and sleek resorts. A spike in cartel-related murders over the past decade has also given the city a reputation as Mexico’s “murder capital,” but most tourists never interact with local crime, except when bodies wash up on the beach.
Members of Acapulco’s expat ancap scene might declare themselves “stateless,” but “tourist” is a more fitting term. When Mexico’s military took over the city from its police in 2018 (exactly the kind of aggressive federal incursion anarchists oppose), or when cartel violence targeted loved ones, Acapulco locals had fewer options than expat or part-time residents, who could return to other countries at their leisure.
And for anarcho-capitalists who stay in the city permanently, vacation has to end sometime.
