Ensenada, June 27.- After several months of bureaucratic red tape, the Ensenada City Council opened the pedestrian crossing to Stacks Beach on Tuesday, one of the community gathering spots in the El Sauzal district, which had been privatized by the businesses located between the beach and the street.
In October 2020, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador published a decree in the Official Gazette of the Federation prohibiting the privatization of beaches and adding several provisions to the National Property Law.
Among the points established in the decree is that if there are no public roads with access to the beach, the owners of properties adjacent to the federal maritime-terrestrial zone must allow free access.
For several months, the surfing community and the Ensenada Conspiracy group have been denouncing the privatization of the beaches in the Sauzal area, which are regularly visited by Ensenada residents and surfers from around the world, on social media.
According to some historians, the beaches of El Sauzal can be considered the birthplace of surfing in Mexico, as young people from California in the 1960s came to Ensenada in search of better waves and shared the sport that originated in the group of islands known as Polynesia.
Surfing enthusiasts explain that the beaches that comprise El Sauzal (Stacks, San Miguel, Saltapatras, among others) have some of the best waves found in the Pacific, especially during the winter season, which is when the sport's major competitions take place.
