Just a few miles from the white sand and turquoise Caribbean Sea that has made Cancun a popular destination for tourists from around the world, many Mexicans live a very different reality. "We haven't been to the beach for four years," says Rosalina Gomez, who like many residents of Villas Otoch, a notoriously rough neighborhood on the outskirts of Cancun, cannot afford to enjoy the paradisiacal beaches the popular tourist resort is known for. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES