I read the "foreigner owned notes taken over by thugs" article and it seems that these foreigner owners had pretended there was no competing claim to the land t

I read the "foreigner owned notes taken over by thugs" article and it seems that these foreigner owners had pretended there was no competing claim to the land they bought, and lost out in court. So it seems this is a case of an individual who rolled the dice and lost, not that "thugs stole his hotel": ------------------ Yet he soon learned that a family from the distant northern state of Nuevo León claimed to have a title to part of the ejido land, a conflict that had percolated for years. Mr. Jacquet did not let it deter him. “I looked at everyone else, and we weren’t worried because nobody had lost their land,” he said. By the late 2000s, though, Tulum had taken off as a vacation destination. Room rates soared, making beachfront properties more attractive as takeover targets. One of the first significant warning signs for business owners came on Nov. 30, 2009. That morning, two dozen police officers and a judge descended on Ocho Tulum, a hotel belonging to Mr. Wolf, the American entrepreneur. It sat on beachfront land that he had rented since 2005 under a 30-year lease. In 2006, before he started building, he had learned there was a competing claim to part of the land, but decided to move ahead with the project. “I heard that it would probably not amount to anything,” he said. “I never thought that I was at risk of losing it.” He challenged his loss in court, but was defeated after years of litigation.