Tempers have flared between the administrators and owners of the Puerto Mágico shopping mall and the Puerto Vallarta City Council. In the latest episode of the already accumulated differences between the group of businessman Vicente Aguilar and the municipal government, the former have threatened to use marines to prevent the latter from operating in the stores.
The fact is that, like any other taxpayer, Puerto Mágico and the businesses to which it rents, with rates between 45 and 75 thousand pesos per month for small spaces, must have their documents, licenses, and permits in order to be open and sell.
The same is true of the airport, which is also in the federal zone. The stores located before the security checkpoints have operating licenses and permits, like all businesses in the city; but Puerto Mágico has so far refused to pay them or to instruct or guide the plaza’s tenants in complying with the law.
So, the City Council, through regulations, required an inspection of Puerto Mágico’s premises, as it has been doing throughout the city, angering the Puerto Mágico members, who did not want to inconvenience their tenants.
One of them, Canadian Dino Regehr, was very extreme in his statements and threatened the City Council, implying that he would use Mexican Navy personnel as a shield if the Regulations personnel attempted to inspect the businesses.
“They’ve done it before,” the foreigner stated, but now that it was announced that businesses that were not in compliance would be closed, Vicente Aguilar’s partner assured that there would be consequences.
And remember, Puerto Mágico is a concessionaire for a section of dock, ceded by the National Port System Administration (ASIPONA), so the plaza is manned by a troop of customs agents and marines, where boat tourists enter.
Source: primerovallarta
