# 2 years after Mexico relocated their climate-ravaged community, residents struggle to adapt

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/2-years-after-mexico-relocated-their-climate-ravaged-community-residents-struggle-to-adapt/
- Published: 2026-11-10T07:00:00+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-10T07:19:20+00:00
- Original publisher: Grist (publisher lean: Left)
- Original article: https://grist.org/culture/2-years-after-mexico-relocated-their-climate-ravaged-community-residents-struggle-to-adapt/
- Topics: Americas, Climate, Government, Politics, Science, World

## Key points

- Fifty-one families moved inland from climate-threatened El Bosque.
- Residents say relocation has disrupted fishing livelihoods and social ties.
- Some families were left out and still do not know why.

## Summary

Mexico’s 2024 relocation of 51 El Bosque families to homes inland protected them from coastal flooding, but moving has disrupted livelihoods and community life. Two years on, residents are struggling with the economic, social and cultural losses of leaving the fishing community, while some people who were not included in the move still do not know why.

Fishing was central to El Bosque residents’ identity and daily routines, including garrulear, when women helped unload catches and earned fish or money. Viviana Velázquez says she misses that life and is struggling with anxiety and financial worries; a return taxi journey costs 240 pesos, about $14, limiting visits to roughly once a week. Authorities chose a site expected to remain safe from flooding for around 30 years, after erosion and storm surges had damaged or swept away more than half of the community’s roughly 100 homes.

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