A former South Padre Islander (U.S. sister city to beautiful downtown Catemaco) married a local señorita and has turned a dilapidated hotel into a mega attraction for RV'ers and campers passing through Los Tuxtlas, Veracruz.
Not content with his slaughtering the inept local RV parks with 30 amp hookups, he is also in the process of converting most of his former dozen or so hotel rooms into comfortable 1 bedroom apartments and has thus exponentially increased the local gringo population by FIVE while providing an almost luxurious, security gated setting on a large landscaped property with a full depth swimming pool, internet connectivity, and access to Laguna Catemaco's jewelled outlet, the Rio Grande.
Obviously cognizant of the memorable phrase "if you build it they will come", he has single handedly created an oasis for gringos where none existed before and his units are now often fully rented.
Another achievement is the creation of an exchange library, possibly the largest selection of books south of the border to the Yucatan.