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Catemaco News & Commentary » Catemaco - Hotel Tepetapan: "Nov 7, 06 Catemaco - Hotel Tepetapan A former South Padre Islander (U.S. sister city to beautiful downtown Catemaco) married a local señorita and has turned a dilapitated hotel into a mega attraction for RV’ers and campers passing through Los Tuxtlas, Veracruz. Not content with his slaughtering the inept local RV parks with 30 amp hookups, he is also in the process of converting most of his former dozen or so hotel rooms into comfortable 1 bedroom apartments and has thus exponentially increased the local gringo population by FIVE while providing an almost luxurious, security gated setting on a large landscaped property with a full depth swimming pool, intenet connectivity, and access to Laguna Catemaco’s jewelled outlet, the Rio Grande. Obviously cognizant of the memorable phrase “if you build it they will come”, he has single handely created an oasis for gringos where none existed before and his units are now fully rented. These hordes of gringos probably spend enough in Catemaco to fund the equivalent of 20 minor Mexican government sponsored projects to alleviate poverty, including the owners. Considering the small size of the city, there is more construction occuring in Catemaco than in New York City. Much of it is shabby small commercial rental hovels. So far, except for the novel Tepetapan entrepeneur, and the political pendejo who erected a six story building without an elevator and full bathrooms, no one in Catemaco has noticed that quality apartment rental properties are in hot demand by the onslaught of gringo hordes. Gringo hordes is here being used facetiously because of a recent riduclous article garnering lots of press in Mexico, but which had its comeuppance from an old Mexico hand here. "