Despite being the most visited port in all of Yucatan during the holiday seasons, Progreso municipality has not yet been able to end these periods with a clean slate, admitted Mayor Julian Zacarias Curi.
Reporting on the results of Easter vacation in his municipality, the mayor mentioned that over the past two weeks, Progreso saw the arrival of over one and a half million people, both local, national, and foreign.
However, during this same period, phones requesting some form of assistance did not stop ringing, and a total of 245 emergency calls were received, that is, more than 16 per day.
Among these incidents reported to the 911 phone line, two deaths were reported. The first of these was a person who drowned during the afternoon of Sunday, April 9, and the murder of a National Guard member on Sunday, April 16.
In addition, Zacarias Curi added that among the assistance provided by the Progreso Municipal Police, fights, cases of domestic violence, heatstroke, and people requiring help to get out of the sea before drowning were also reported.
“We registered 245 assists in 15 days, so we have to call on people who are going to visit the beaches to do so with great caution, control, respect for the environment, families, citizens, enjoy them and take care of them,” he added.
The mayor indicated that compared to Merida, where a “clean slate” was declared during the Easter vacation period, Progreso is still working “every day” to reduce insecurity in the municipality.
“The truth is that you cannot control when a person comes with a problem from behind, and we would really like it if everyone would let us know before these incidents happen,” he added.
He recalled that over the past four years, Progreso has had an impressive “growth” in terms of infrastructure and visitor arrivals, and currently has 60,000 inhabitants, but this figure could triple at any time.
“I would like to call on all the people who visit Progreso because it is no longer just for Yucatecos, people from other states, other parts of the country, and the world visit Progreso, and many people come,” he responded.
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