Arrested Development - Ex-Pats Mexico

Yesterday (Good Friday) 105 families were evicted in Torreón.
They were squatters in a nearly completed development.

What a way to spend Easter -- sleeping under the stars.

OOPS. I have been reminded that Easter is next week. It's DST that's tomorrow. More damn senior moments.

Well, Rolly, it is Palm Sunday, however. So maybe it makes it even more relevant.

How long had they been there? Lizzy

The news stories have been pretty short of details, but it appears that some had been there for good while. The developer had run out of money before he completed all the units in a rather large development. Some houses had been finished, sold and occupied. The unfinished units were in various states from almost completed to lacking doors and windows. Many of the squatters had made major improvements to their houses - adding doors, windows, kitchen sinks, etc.

When the developer secured new financing, he began the process of eviction. He got a court order on 15 Jan that was served on the people last Friday.

Now that the squatters have left, a roving band of thugs has wrecked many of the empty units. Both the neighbors and the police agree that it was not the evicted families that returned to devastate the property. This roving gang has been a problem in the area for some time.