‘Gringo go home.’ Mexico City protests target Americans, gentrification
Mexico City – Since the early days of Pandem, foreigners have drawn the city of Mexico, especially Americans and Europeans, with the cost of living and remote working opportunities.
During this time, a few neighborhoods in the city center, many of them advertising wine bars, cafes and pilates studios, changed with exile, corner stores and barber shops. Rents rose and some of the locals were priced from their homes.
Some blame the city’s housing crisis and the costs of new arrivals and more than 35,000 Airbnb operating here.
In recent days, this anger has been poured into the streets.
Since a demonstrator increases the prices and housing demands in neighborhoods such as Condesa and Rome, the increase in remote workers burns an influence of US President Trump in Mexico on Friday during a protest against gentrification.
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A march against gentrification drew hundreds of people, protesters demanded that the leaders of Mexican leaders to block short -term rents and tax foreigners.
July 4 – US Independence Day – was held and declared as a protest against “American imperialism ..
The march, which passed the US Embassy, was mostly peaceful. However, some hikers returned to vandalism, and a bank shredded more than a dozen windshield windscreen, including a popular Taco chain and a Starbucks.
The videos showed that protesters harassed tourists living in a luxury Taquería until they got up and left. Some bosses sitting in the street side of the demonstrators, in some cases, protested that they were Mexican, not foreigners who flash their identity cards.
In some parts of the city, the walls continue to scribble with graffiti: ım My culture is not your trend ”and“ Kill a Gringo ”.
In other places, including Barcelona and Berlin, protests against mass tourism and high housing costs challenged Mexico City as a place that meets foreigners to the long -term concept.
President Trump adds fuel to increasing two -national tensions, as he threatens tariffs for the import of Mexican and tries to deport immigrants who live in the United States without being authorized. Trump’s attacks on Mexico led to a wave of nationalism, some people pushed a boycott embracing the red, green and white of the Mexican flag in the advertising campaigns of American products and companies.
On social media, where the protests of the commentators are applauded and attacked, the US Department of Internal Security, a post In X on Sunday, to encourage unauthorized immigrants to change their own displacement through a Customs and Border Protection Application: ız If you are on illegal road in the US and want to participate in the next protest in Mexico City, use the CBP Home application to facilitate your separation. ”
Mexican leaders condemned the vandalism and the Nativist tone adopted by many protesters.
A demonstrator throws a restaurant chair at the end of a peaceful protest that turned to violence against the gentrification of Mexico City on Friday.
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“Such xenophobia should be condemned,” said President Claudia Sheinbaum said in a statement on Monday. “Mexico is a country open to the world.”
However, he stressed that the protesters had legitimate complaints and that gentleman is a phenomenon that should be discussed ”.
Like Sheinbaum, Clara Brugada, the Mayor of Mexico, which belongs to the leftist political party that controls most of the country, said that the city should focus on building a more affordable housing.
Monday, we should continue to implement measures and public policies to combat these phenomena, ”he said. “The demand for housing and rents is increasing overnight, and the inhabitants are evacuated because they do not have economic tools to live there.”
Sheinbaum, the Mayor of Mexico City before being elected president, was criticized for longing for a long time against the expansion of residents while renting properties to digital nomads, tourists, tourists, tourists and other foreigners. The demonstrators say the government is still not doing enough.
One of the collectives organizing the walk said in a statement, “We are not against the migration of human rights,” he said. “However, we must admit that the state, institutions and both local and foreign enterprises offer different treatment to those with more purchasing.”
Analysts have returned to their allegations that foreign raids would largely be accused of increasing costs in Mexico City.
Viri The truth is that the housing has become much more expensive without Gringos or Gringo, Vir said Viri Ríos, a political scientist in the newspaper El País. He said that housing prices in Mexico increased by 247%between 2005-21. This includes states with low tourist flows such as Morelos, where prices increase by 193%. He said the increases in Mexico City have been slowing down since the pandemi.
A man points to the Mexican identity to prove their nationality because they protested against the gentrification of Mexico City on Friday.
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“The increase in Mexico City comes before Gringos, is around the country, and there are reasons that go beyond the arrival of tourists or digital nomads,” he wrote. More to blame, he said: high construction costs and public policies, which mean building buildings, keep up with demand. Mexico City officials said that Airbnb has largely embraced Airbnb because it is much easier to collect taxes from the company, many of them are compared to long -term leases paid in cash.
Currently, some neighborhoods in the discussion center were first gentated by the Mexicans.
For a long time, Mexico has attracted tens of millions of US visitors annually for Americans, beaches and Pueblos. However, the Americans, the New York Times around 2016 seriously began to leave Mexico City inundated named The world’s best travel target and magazine writers of this “New Berlin. “
International artists, chefs and designers arrived, gathered cheap studio areas, opened a restaurant and integrated themselves into the creative nightlife of the city.
He pushed his pande to excessive speed. As Most Europe and Asia closed its doors to Americans in 2020, Mexico, which adopted a few COVİD-19 restrictions, was one of the few places when Gringos was welcomed.
Making it easier: Americans have long been able to stay here for six months without a visa.
For remote workers who earn dollars, the appeal is clear: for a cost of $ 2,500 in Los Angeles or New York, a person can rent a roof floor here.
This phenomenon transforms some of the most popular neighborhoods of the city into immigrant generations.
British, Rome, Condesa, Centro and Juárez’in leafy, walking neighborhoods play everywhere.
For years, most people in this metropolis had unchanged with international visitors, gentle and patient.
But some ChilangosThe locals are fed up as they are known.
During a demonstration against the gentrification in Mexico City on Friday, a protest on a laundry rope was displayed.
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A few years ago, comprehensive lace -up posters emerged around the city. “Is it new for the city? Is it working away?” They are studying English. “The plague and the locals hate you. Go.”
This feeling reiterated hundreds of response poured after publishing a young American apparently harmless tweet: ın Do yourself a favor and remote work in Mexico City – really magical. ”
“Please don’t,” read one of the good answers. “This city becomes more expensive every day because of people like you, and you don’t notice it or you don’t care.”
Genoveva Ramírez, a 35 -year -old working in marketing and advertising, goes to Juárez neighborhood for two hours every day because the rent in the city is impossible for me ”. So, it takes the tab in the restaurants.
“When you see these places, you are full of strangers and you understand why prices are so increasing, because foreigners pay.”
Still, he said he didn’t blame them. “After all, it’s not their mistakes.”
