Its time for us to go: the Mexican fishing village swallowed by the sea
By Adam Williams
Source: theguardian
10/20/2023
Credit: Gustavo Graf
Antonio Merlin watched from his living room window as the ocean inched closer to his home.
When the 55-year-old fisher built the concrete house with mosaic tile floors for his wife and four children in the village of El Bosque in 2002, the shoreline of the Gulf of Mexico was nearly a kilometre away, a 15-minute walk from his back door.