Mexicans protest tourists and gentrification

Their most recent anti-Mexican city protests were not at all coincidence – July 4th, US independence day.

The demonstrators gathered in Mexican Mexican Parqueta district – the epicenter of the Mexican capital – to protest for a series of complaints.

Most were angry in rental hikes, in the neighborhoods of unregulated holidays and Americans and European neighborhoods in the neighborhoods of Condesa, Roma and La Juárez forced long-term neighbors.

Only in the counts, estimates suggest five homes is a short-term or tourist housing.

Others also mentioned more prosaic changes, like menus of restaurants in English, or the hot taco sauce are lighter for foreign oral oral sensitive.

But as he moved through the early streets, at first the peaceful protest became ugly.

Radical demonstrators attacked by cafes and boutique stores, breaking windows, scary customers, spray graffiti and “Fuera Gringo!” That’s “Gingos.”

At his next press conference, President Claudia Shinbaum declined as “xenophoboa”.

“It doesn’t matter what kind of legitimate cause, as in the case of man, cannot be demanded”! “To people from other nationalities in our country,” he said.

Aside from the radical and agent masks, Motivation were created for most of July 4 were stories like Erika Aguilar.

Mexico rented the same apartment in Mexico after more than 45 years, the beginning of the end hit the door in 2017.

Prim’s long-term residents, located in the 1920s of the 1920s Gem architecture of the 1920s.

Erika, the oldest daughter, reminded the shocking news: “They arrived at all the apartments of the building and to empty the premises until the end of the month, because they will not renew rental contracts.

“You can imagine my mother’s face,” he adds Erika, his voice for a moment of Uzor. “He lived here since 1977”

The owners were selling in a real estate company. But the residents gave the last real offer.

“They told us in two weeks 53 meters pesos ($ 2.9 million; if we could lift £ 2.1 million), we could keep the building”, empty laughter.

“It’s fortune! New apartments were about 1.5 meters of pesos ($ 50,000 and $ 80,000) then.”

Today, his old house covers tarpaulin and scaffolding, as a construction team becomes luxurious “One, two and three bed apartments designed for short and medium term rental”, has the company’s website.

“It’s not a construction for people like me,” Erika – newspaper designer – comments. “It’s in short term dollars. In fact, if necessary, we were watching rents that are already charging in some buildings. “

Erika and his family now live very far from the city center, officially in the area around, nearly two hours in public transport. Sergio González activist “loses the right to centralness” refers to, “everything involved.”

His team has recorded more than 4,000 cases in the La Jaárez district of La Juárez district “. It was one of them.

“We face what we call the city war,” he said in a continuous constant protest made on 4 July.

“What is the conflict is the earth itself – who does it and who does not have the right to earth.” Most of the residents outside his neighborhood could not be in the city, he said. “They have lost their rights protected under the city’s Constitution.

“The first apartment I rented here cost about 4,000 pesos in 2007,” Sergio explained. “Today, the apartment costs more than 10 times. It is powerful. It is a pure speculation.”

Clara Brugada, in front of the Mayor of Mexico, presented a 14-point plan to regulate rental prices, to protect long-term residents and build new social housing at an affordable price.

But for Sergio, and thousands of like him, the Mayor’s plan came too late. The administration believes that Mexico thinks more to deal with the Gentilification of Mexico.

“We have a local and federal government, which continues to promote neoliberal economic economic models,” Sergio argued.

“With people who have increased the social security network, I think it is personally very good, that this has not changed the economic paradigm that governs.”

The mayor called “palliative”, and “the case” to close the barn door “after the horse.

Claudia Shinbaum’s critics said that when the mayor of capital was, aliens were actively attractive to restore the Airbnb’s cooperation agreement in 2022 to promote tourism and digital nomad.

Erika indicates the finger of guilt for his family. To sell a real estate development company, not to protect the city’s government’s long-term residents, although tenants failed to play over the cross-cruciate gentleman.

However, it does not particularly accuse the aliens who went to Mexico in their droves, especially around the Pandem of Coronavirus. “If I had the means to live elsewhere, I would probably also have” reasons, “and tourism has been good for Mexico, the source of revenue.”

However, many others have recently blamed in the last march, at least the fault of the last American and Europe. They accuse Mexican customs to be a deaf tone, learn Spanish or in many cases, also to pay taxes.

The wave wave of southern starred Americans is mainly contrasted with the hard treatment of Trump Administration and the hard treatment of other US immigrants. Immigration is a problem when traveling north from south, apparently in the opposite direction, an entrepreneurial argued.

On the site of the protest of July 4, Espanada Zabala at Parque México, graffiti “Yankees out!” It has been bleached, and the early morning boxing and the salsa schools continue to eliminate, often in English than Spanish.

In view of the cost of living and polarized policies in the US, Condesa street leaves are obvious.

“Leaise, the park is, of course, of course, it is peaceful. He liked that Richard Alsobooks has a short journey to Mexico City with his wife, Alexis, Portland, Oregon.

As they walk through the Mexican capital, they accept a day to reset a day one day. “Of course, we don’t want to help any gentilification,” says Alexis, because of the extent of the problem.

“But you need to have a good job in the US, and of course the dollar goes much more here. So I can understand the appeal – especially for those who can work remotely.”

Richard, who works in an important US sports clothing company, is a very high cost of living in America, “and is often planned to work until your 70’s.

They both believe, however, that it is possible to relocate in the right way. “If you treat those around them with respect and try to be part of the community, this goes far more farther than trying to do it elsewhere,” says Richard.

“Exactly,” match Alexis. “Learn language. Pay your taxes!”

However, in the last decade, Mexico City Change Changes has been terminated.

The life of the Erika’s family has turned on his axis after months and the mother has struggled with depression. When we walk through alumni district of La Juárez, memories are flooding.

“It was an excellent bar called La Alegría, tortillery (tortilla shop), Tlapalería (hardware shop), when I was at least I was buying candy in that place,” says Erika pointing to another store.

“Most I miss people, the community. There is no family or children here.”

Most of these small businesses have disappeared, replacing hip cafes and expensive restaurants.

“I think Luzaz has died a little soul,” he had a lamb. “You have lived in a forest, and gradually raised the trees and then you suddenly realize that you live in the desert.”