Los Angeles’ sister city saw its residents protest on Friday as hundreds, many of them young people, took to the streets to protest the gentrification caused by so-called "digital nomads” and other factors in neighborhoods such as Roma and La Condesa in Mexico City.
According to Alfonso Sotelo of El Heraldo, the march began with dozens of people meeting at the Foro Lindbergh in Parque México to work collectively to make protest signs. Dozens became hundreds and they marched through the city towards the Estela de Luz bearing signs demanding gringos, who make up the majority of the foreign gentry, go home in various, colorful ways.
A few dozen people directed their anger at a couple of restaurants and businesses owned by foreign companies or that specifically catered to foreigners and gentrifiers.
VIDEO: 🇲🇽 Shops, restaurants vandalized in Mexico City anti-gentrification protestHundreds turned out in the Colonia Roma neighborhood to denounce rising housing prices and the displacement of long-time Mexican residents from areas increasingly populated by foreigners
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"We're fed up with foreigners coming in with their euros and dollars and trying to buy our country, because, at the end of the day, we allow this kind of thing to happen. There will be no one left to stop them,” said a speaker during the protest.