The climate in San Luis de la Loma is tropical, and the main crop is the mango, several varieties of which are grown (Ataulfo, Manila, Child, Ball).

Other agriculture in San Luis de la Loma includes coconut, corn, sesame, chili, papaya and banana.

The village also has its own terminal (Costa Grande Buses) servicing a San Luis de la Loma to Acapulco route.

By 1922 he had become a political leader, forming Partido Obrero Campesino, on the platform that large landowners should yield some of their land to farmers in the Costa Grande, a project that would encourage the formation of ejidos.

De la Cruz once met with President Álvaro Obregón to explain the precarious situation in the state, where those who had been property-owners now had nowhere to grow.