Overview

• Communal residents demonstrated outside the property, asserting it sits on Tepoztlán’s communal lands and cannot be sold or titled without assembly consent.
• Communal legal adviser Carlos Rojas alleges the senator’s public deed would be invalid under the communal plan and points to a reported mortgage lien as a further irregularity.
• Rojas contends the site lies inside an ecological protection zone where housing is not permitted, saying any closure would fall to the municipal government and Profepa.
• A community assembly is scheduled to consider possible actions, which Rojas says could include seeking land restitution through the Agrarian Tribunal.
• Neighbors describe a cash purchase typical of irregular deals on communal land and estimate high market values for the plot and house, figures not confirmed by authorities.