Protests against surging mass tourism in Mexico City end in vandalism, harassment of tourists
MEXICO CITY (AP) – Hundreds of protests against gentrification and mass tourism, which started in Mexico City neighborhoods, which are popular among tourists, returned to violence when a small number of people began to break down the windows and harassing foreigners.
The masquerade protesters shredded the windows, and in the touristic regions of Condesa and Rome, high -level businesses looted and screamed to tourists in the region. The graffiti on the shattered glass, which is shredded by rock, read the following: “Get out of Mexico.” Protestors organized signs that demanded local legislation to better regulate tourism levels. more strict housing laws.
The hiking then continued to protest except for the US Embassy and mentioned in the city’s subway system. Police supplements, police sirens were published in the city center on Friday evening, gathered outside the embassy building.
In recent years, it has pointed out a violent end of a more peaceful march during the day, which was often flooded against the masses of American tourists, which were flooded in the capital of Mexico.
Since the “digital nomads in the United States flocked to Mexico City in 2020, the tension in the city was increasing to escape the coronavirus locks in the United States or to benefit from cheaper rental prices in Latin America.
Since then, the rents have risen and the locals have been pushed more and more pushed from areas such as Condesa and Roman, green areas full of coffee shops and restaurants.
Michelle Castro, a 19 -year -old university student, was among the herds of protesting. He said that the city is from the city center of the working class and that the apartment buildings were turned into housing for tourists.
“Mexico City is going through a transformation,” he said. “There are many foreigners who come to live here, that is, Americans. Many of them say xenophobia, but not. Only many foreigners come here, rents are so high because of Airbnb. Some people can’t pay anymore.”
The Mexico City protest follows others in European cities BarcelonaMadrid, Paris and Roman mass against tourism.
