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Mexico president slams xenophobia after anti-gentrification protest (www.rfi.fr)
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Mexico City (AFP) – Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum on Monday condemned "xenophobic" behavior at a protest against gentrification blamed on remote workers and other foreigners.

Friday's rally in Mexico City turned violent, with some of the several hundred protesters vandalizing businesses including a Starbucks coffee shop.

Others held signs saying "Gringo go home" or demanding that foreigners speak Spanish, pay taxes and respect Mexican culture.

"The xenophobic displays at this demonstration must be condemned," Sheinbaum said at her morning news conference.

Protesters complained that an influx of remote workers and other foreigners since the Covid pandemic had driven up rent prices and displaced Mexicans, a phenomenon known as gentrification.

As they passed street-side restaurants, some demonstrators heckled foreign diners, who either ignored them or left.

Sheinbaum, who was Mexico City mayor from 2018 to 2023, called the motive for the protest legitimate but rejected calls for foreigners to leave.

The leftist leader linked the rise in rents to the arrival of "digital nomads," many of them from the United States, as well as real estate speculation connected to online rental platforms such as Airbnb.

Mexico is home to one-fifth of the five million expatriates counted by the Association of Americans Resident Overseas in 2023.

The march came as US President Donald Trump intensifies his crackdown against undocumented immigrants in the United States.

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[–] JoeDyrt@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The march came as US President Donald Trump intensifies his crackdown against undocumented immigrants in the United States.

I recently moved to Mexico from Canada πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦ because of the culture! Nice weather and lower cost of living are both available in many other countries. Mexico has the culture, the arts, the food, the variety that make life here so interesting. Nay; captivating!
Please don’t seek to emulate the degenerating culture to the north. No one likes it! Especially not Mexicans, who have seen firsthand their presence as immigrants in USA and Canada have improved life for the people there. Now help your immigrants do the same for Mexico! πŸ‡²πŸ‡½

[–] stink@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I see nothing wrong with the saying. They literally have streets in mexico city that are english only. Cafes, yoga classes, bars, all in english, no spanish.

It's colonialism.

[–] SnortsGarlicPowder@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Did you really just take a far right saying and applied it to Mexico City?

[–] stink@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Far right saying?

Colonialism β‰  immigration.

These people going to mexico city are there specifically so they can exploit the people already living there due to their higher wages.

[–] SnortsGarlicPowder@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

Yeah. I've heard right wing talking heads and unfortunate people I had to personally deal with complain that there are whole streets in cities that don't speak the language.

So why shouldn't we be mad at the landlords and property speculators who have inflated property prices because of greed? Maybe the people from the USA moved because they can't afford to live in the city thry left? And Trump. Trump supporters have used love it or leave it twice now. Remote working made it feasable for people to take that advice.