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'Gringos leave’: Protests targeting travelers rise as overtourism anger grows
MSDNC ^ | Sept 2, 20256 | Monica Pitrelli

Posted on 09/03/2025 7:01:49 AM PDT by Salgak

Nan Palmero was at a rehearsal dinner in Mexico City’s trendy Roma Norte neighborhood, ahead of a wedding of two American friends, when he heard a “rumbling” outside.

From the restaurant’s second story, Palmero described seeing a large group of people moving through the streets, some holding placards, shouting “Gringos leave.”

He later learned that demonstrators smashed restaurant windows and damaged vehicles, including the new car of his friends’ wedding planner — a local resident — he said.

 “They wrecked her car, they smashed a window, they ripped off a mirror, they spray-painted the side of it. It was really pretty nasty,” he said.

Palmero, an avid traveler from San Antonio, Texas, said he had heard that an influx of digital nomads and foreign tourists had pushed up prices in some of the city’s most popular neighborhoods.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnbc.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Mexico; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: protests; tourists
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Cue Don Henley. . ..

"[Verse 6] Well, we barely made the airport For the last plane out As we taxied down the runway I could hear the people shout They said, "Don't come back here, Yankee" But if I ever do I'll bring more money 'Cause all she wants to do is dance"

(GRIN)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eud5AurOxm0

1 posted on 09/03/2025 7:01:49 AM PDT by Salgak
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To: Salgak

Nicely done!


2 posted on 09/03/2025 7:04:12 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: Salgak

> “Gringos leave.” <

Actually pretty good advice.


3 posted on 09/03/2025 7:04:38 AM PDT by Leaning Right (It's morning in America. Again.)
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To: Salgak

There was some big protest against tourism in a town in Spain. So tourists decided they didn’t want to go to such an unfriendly place.

Then a lot of hotel and restaurant workers lost their jobs.

Oops.


4 posted on 09/03/2025 7:11:46 AM PDT by packagingguy
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To: Salgak
Yep. And we can take happily take our $$ elsewhere.

Mexicans are unhappy that their gravy train - remittances - are being cut off by Trump.

Remittances to Mexico Continue to Decline

"The amount of money Mexico received in remittances fell 16.2% annually in June, the largest year-over-year decline for any month in more than a decade...The Bank of Mexico (Banxico) reported on Friday [August 1st] that income from remittances totaled US $5.201 billion in June, down from $6.207 billion in the same month of 2024."

Good. Keep the $$ here - should be used to pay for all the illegals' health care and education.

5 posted on 09/03/2025 7:12:24 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (You Say You Want a Revolution?)
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To: Salgak

6 posted on 09/03/2025 7:13:46 AM PDT by Tench_Coxe (The woke were surprised by the reaction to the Bud Light fiasco. May there be many more surprises)
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To: Salgak

Are they admitting that now they understand how we feel in the USA about all of the immigrants?


7 posted on 09/03/2025 7:14:41 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: Salgak

“...shouting “Gringos leave.”...”

non problemo....very good advice.!
You stay on your sideof the border, and I’ll stay on mine.


8 posted on 09/03/2025 7:16:10 AM PDT by lgjhn23 ("On the 8th day, Satan created the progressive liberal to destroy all the good that God created...")
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To: MtnClimber

The irony of this is interesting


9 posted on 09/03/2025 7:17:21 AM PDT by Fai Mao ( used to care, but things have changed ~ Bob Dylan)
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To: Leaning Right

May I suggest that they build a wall?


10 posted on 09/03/2025 7:19:03 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: Salgak

They feel the same way in Europe. Effem all.


11 posted on 09/03/2025 7:21:15 AM PDT by Wilderness Conservative (Nature is the ultimate conservative)
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To: Salgak

Never visit Mexico! Sounds like a good plan to me.


12 posted on 09/03/2025 7:22:39 AM PDT by econjack
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To: Salgak

Sounds kinda racist.

Can their government do some research, doxxing, and then forcing social media to ban them?

You know, like they do in Gringo-land and the UK.


13 posted on 09/03/2025 7:23:44 AM PDT by John Milner (Marching for Peace is like breathing for food.)
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To: Salgak

I would not go to Mexico under any circumstances today.


14 posted on 09/03/2025 7:27:11 AM PDT by rlmorel (Factio Communistica Sinensis Delenda Est.)
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To: Larry Lucido

> May I suggest that they build a wall? <

Robert Frost and I both agree with you.

“Good fences make good neighbors.”
- Robert Frost


15 posted on 09/03/2025 7:27:53 AM PDT by Leaning Right (It's morning in America. Again.)
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To: Salgak

I know people who go to Cancun every year and every year, the safe space gets smaller.


16 posted on 09/03/2025 7:31:42 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If Hitler were alive today and criticized Trump, would he still be Hitler?)
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Outstanding! The Jedi mind trick is working.


17 posted on 09/03/2025 7:33:05 AM PDT by dznutz
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To: Bon of Babble

“The amount of money Mexico received in remittances fell 16.2% annually in June, the largest year-over-year decline for any month in more than a decade...The Bank of Mexico (Banxico) reported on Friday.”

All these “remittances” should be taxed at 50%.

No exceptions.

L


18 posted on 09/03/2025 7:33:49 AM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: Salgak

I wonder how much of the anger is from Mexican guys upset at wealthy tourists making acquaintances with the local girls?


19 posted on 09/03/2025 7:38:53 AM PDT by SauronOfMordor (You’ve not seen the darkness in the hearts of men who realize no one is coming to save them.)
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To: Salgak

The Macho Nachos are not our friends. They only want our money so their country won’t go all the way into the sewer.


20 posted on 09/03/2025 7:40:42 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Is this damn country so hard up for Judges that we have to hire Sparkle Sookananan from Trinidad?)
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