We all have great memories in the wonderful port of Acapulco, yours truly spent wonderful vacations at the Yacht Club, today devastated by Otis. There is no way in which one cannot feel great nostalgia and desolation at seeing all the memories of your childhood destroyed, not to mention all the people I lived with over so many years. There my grandfather, may he rest in peace, helped me learn to swim the old-fashioned way, throwing me into the pool and saying “get ready”; in that same place my dad taking me by the hand to go around the docks; pranks on trips with my grandmother, sisters and my cousins that would later be with my friends when we started going to the famous clubs or restaurants.
Professional life continued to link me to Acapulco with the Banking Conventions that were held for so many years in the legendary Princess hotel, devastated by the terrible gusts of the hurricane. In those days, intense days of work, dialogue, learning, but also meetings with dear friends, colleagues and of course a lot of laughter in the famous lobby bar.
I can’t help but remember all the hours of flight training at the Acapulco airport whose tower was severely damaged. That port was the destination of my first route as pilot in command, departing from the Atizapán airfield and there were also my practices under instrument rules.
After your kind reading of my adventures in Acapulco, in which I no longer mentioned weddings and other events, I know that so many people share unforgettable experiences that marked their lives.
I join the call of a dear friend and journalist from Acapulco, Jeanette Leyva. Today Guerrero and Acapulco need us, let’s put to our help the faces of so many people we met, with whom we lived, it is urgent to be able to reach those most in need and once tourism can be reactivated, consider that paradisiacal place as a destination for our vacations to reactivate the economy.
There are many ways to help, do it through the institution that inspires you the most confidence, whether from the Red Cross, Caritas, through financial institutions or other foundations such as the Kaluz Foundation.