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Mexican Authorities Confiscate Boards At Pumping Puerto In COVID Crackdown

Would you still run the risk?

elsewhere // Aug 4, 2021
Words by Ethan Davis
Reading Time: < 1 minute

Mexico’s Federal Police or the ‘Federales’ as they are often referred to, have been stationed on their SUV’s at Puerto Escondido confiscating surfboards in an attempt to stop the spread of COVID’s new delta variant. Surfers face fines and jail time of up to thirty-six days for failure to comply with new regulations.

Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard said last wednesday that the Delta COVID-19 variant and an increase in coronavirus cases has complicated a reopening of the U.S.-Mexico land border to non-essential travel.

60-65% of all new cases in Mexico have been reported to be the highly transmissible delta variant. All beaches surrounding Puerto Escondido have now been closed for two weeks, August 1 through 15. 

The next CT stop, the Corona Open Mexico, is being held eighty miles east at Barra de la Cruz on August 10. It will be the first time the event runs since 2006 when Andy Irons took out the event over Taylor Knox with powerful rail surfing, deep tubes and stylish airs. 

Will the tour be able to get back to the perfect sand bottomed walls of de la Cruz? Or will this highly transmissible new strain of COVID prolong the tours return indefinitely?

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