Editorial

The article in the last issue about Colonia Magisterio by Lyse &Phil Rioux has brought about many positive responses; it appears a large number of readers are interested in joining this worthwhile cause.

The Tribune would like to clarify that we ran the story to raise the consciousness about the existing poverty that surrounds us in this beautiful place. It reminds me of the Phil Collins song “It´s just another day in Paradise.”

Many of us full time residents in Puerto Vallarta seem to take this beautiful place we are allowed to live in for granted and simply turn the other way when we see a person in need.

We receive petitions to publish “alleged” Charity stories and events almost daily, many of them self-serving to promote one or more businesses, nothing more. What really impressed me is that Lyse and Phil are simply wintering tourists, no hidden agenda. Plain old human beings, salt of the earth good people helping out other human beings in dire straits, that´s their reward. Surely worthwhile publishing this selfless act of human compassion.

This edition´s Letter-of-the–Week is from another tourist, this one from the United States with an amazing story on Page 5. Maybe Mexico will finally get some positive press, those us that have lived here know it´s long overdue. Mexico is not the “monger” the U.S. Media portrays it to be.

We have another quite interesting example from a departing Puerto Vallarta Resident on Page 10.

The Tribune appreciates the continuing positive responses that keep pouring in via e-mail, Facebook and by phone. There so many this week, those of you that don´t see your response in this week´s issue; please check your e-mail for my reply and please accept my apologize for not printing your´s.

“We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose. “

George Orwell