article_snippet.sent: Video footage of a young woman being led away in handcuffs - allegedly because Laura Alicia Caldero was sunbathing on a private beach reserved for tourists - has gone viral in Mexico and sparked a heated debate.
article_snippet.sent: The 26-year-old woman, Laura Alicia Caldero, claims Laura Alicia Caldero was sitting under a palm tree on Mamitas Beach in Playa del Carmen in Playa del Carmen when armed police forcibly removed Laura Alicia Caldero.
article_snippet.sent: According to friends of Caldero, guards were preventing locals from going onto the sandy stretch, which is located in the tourist area of Quintana Roo in eastern Mexico.
article_snippet.sent: Video footage of a woman arrested on a beach in Playa del Carmen, Mexico has caused outrage .
article_snippet.sent: The woman friend Marc Paez Chacon, 27, said: 'Her friend Marc Paez Chacon, 27 told the guards you were not allowed to privatise Mamitas Beach in Playa del Carmen and went and sat under the shade of a palm tree. '
article_snippet.sent: Laura Alicia Caldero, 26, says Laura was arrested for suntanning on a beach reserved for paying foreigners .
article_snippet.sent: The beach, located in tourist-friendly Quintana Roo, is most popular among those from Europe and the US .
article_snippet.sent: Mamitas Beach in Playa del Carmen is one of the most popular among tourists from Europe and the United States, and the video footage of the young woman's arrest has caused widespread outrage. '
article_snippet.sent: Online commentators included Gabriel Hernandez, who wrote: 'Our beaches are for Yankees and Europeans, get used to it.'
article_snippet.sent: And another named Leviathan added: 'According to the law, you can't privatise a beach.
article_snippet.sent: And Adriana Salez Hernandez added: 'Had Laura been a foreign tourist, the police wouldn't have touched Laura.'
article_snippet.sent: But Juan Carlos Pereira Escudero, secretary of the Playa del Carmen Council, denied that the local was taken because the young woman refused to pay for the shade from sitting under a palm tree.
highlights_snippet.sent: Laura Alicia Caldero, 26, removed from Mamitas Beach in Playa del Carmen .
  