Beach
vendors. Lots of them around right now. Regular
fixtures on Medano beach, peddling their local wares to eager tourists. And who
can blame them. It’s prime vacation time. And one of their few chances to make
money.
But if you’re
in Cabo now, or have been recently, no doubt you will also have seem the child vendors in.
Worryingly they too seem to be regular fixtures in Cabo.
A quick walk
on Medano, or round the Marina and guaranteed that beguiling little brown-eyed
kids will try to sell you stuff. Fruit, flowers, chewing gum or trinkets. They
are pretty persuasive. “Come on lady, please buy – one chewing gum” pleads a beautiful
little girl who looks no more than 5….
Seems like an
old problem that is just not going away. Despite two women being jailed in Dec 2016 for
exploiting 8 minors in exactly this way - nobody seems afraid of getting
caught.The kids are
in full view. Pushed out on the streets by ruthless adult vendors who collect
all the cash. The authorities see it every day. Yet nothing happens.
Ricardo Araoz
Gamino, President of the Asociacion Colonas de el Medano, says they have been fighting
this problem for 20 years. But it’s getting worse. And he urges the authorities to
take a firm hand.