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Protest in Mexico City against Gentrification.

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Photo foot, Protest in Mexico City against Gentrification.

    • Author, Daniel Pardo
    • Author's title, BBC World correspondent in Mexico

“Tell him not to colonial gentrification,” said one. “Go back to your country, gringo,” asked another. And one more pointed out: “Our identity is not a business.”

The posters in the demonstration against Gentrification in Mexico City last week realized that the claim is not only for the arrival of digital nomads after the pandemic to the fashion colonies of the capital.

The protest, at least a hundred people, most of them young, were held in the most tourist neighborhoods of the city, Rome and Countess, where it is common to see foreigners wandering, walk to their pets and work from bars and coffees.

And in part because the demonstration ended with damage in commercial premises, but above all because there is a sensitive moment of Mexico's relationship with the United States, which initially seemed a timely march of neighbors ended up resuscitating a national background debate on decent housing and tourism, one of the largest sources of income in the country.

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