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Fed up with Trump and gentrification, Mexico City nightclub charges $300 ‘gringo’ cover fee
Los Angeles Times ^ | May 15, 2026 3 AM PT | Kate Linthicum

Posted on 05/17/2026 5:29:23 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

MEXICO CITY — Federico Crespo was tired of President Trump’s bullying. Of his punishing tariffs, his threat to bomb cartels in Mexico and his ruthless campaign against immigrants in the United States.

Crespo was also tired of the American tourists and remote workers who had flooded his native Mexico City, driving up rents, displacing locals and altering everything from the city’s nightlife to its culinary scene.

The owner of a popular dance club, Crespo, 39, wanted to call attention to what he saw as a multitude of U.S.-related woes.

So he started charging Americans nearly $300 to enter his bar.

Mexicans and other Latin Americans pay $14. Customers from Canada, China and anywhere else pay $20.

The door policy at Japan nightclub has gone viral, triggering anger and even death threats, while also earning Crespo widespread praise.

The controversy spotlights mounting geopolitical tensions between the U.S. and Mexico as well as growing backlash against what some see as an invasion of Americans and other foreigners in Mexico City.

A July 4 protest last year against “American imperialism” drew hundreds of marchers, some of whom turned to vandalism, smashing windows of more than a dozen storefronts, including a bank and a Starbucks. Some chanted, “Gringo go home,” in English and scrawled “Kill a gringo” graffiti on walls.

The march echoed demonstrations against...

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: discrimination; failednation; gringohate; hatefromkate; mexicanracists; mexico; publicitystunt; whataretheirfrnicks
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1 posted on 05/17/2026 5:29:23 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

It’s his business his rules.


2 posted on 05/17/2026 5:30:47 PM PDT by nwrep
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

If we go home, we’re taking our money with us. Do you really want that, Mexico?

CC


3 posted on 05/17/2026 5:31:32 PM PDT by Celtic Conservative (Heghlu'meH QaQ jajvam!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

So they’re upset with liberals fleeing Trump. The irony is strong.


4 posted on 05/17/2026 5:31:48 PM PDT by Fai Mao ( )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Block the folks with the money. Probably learnt that in coledge.


5 posted on 05/17/2026 5:31:58 PM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

LOL! He can charge whatever he wants it’s his business. But…. WGAS?!


6 posted on 05/17/2026 5:33:54 PM PDT by Rummyfan (Ok In anyq war between the civilized man and the savage, support lthe civilized man.👨 so t tv)
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To: nwrep

Yes, the positive is I saved $300. How much is that in Pesos?


7 posted on 05/17/2026 5:35:18 PM PDT by Eli Kopter (ED)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Chy-Nah isn’t the Colonial Power overtaking Meh-He-Co?


8 posted on 05/17/2026 5:36:15 PM PDT by Paladin2 ( YMMV)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I’m sure the globalists will be quick to criticize him. Where’s the oh so precious DIVERSITY?????


9 posted on 05/17/2026 5:36:44 PM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: Fai Mao

That is exactly correct. Most of these gringos are flaming liberals.


10 posted on 05/17/2026 5:40:13 PM PDT by Ge0ffrey (No.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

A country that has been making bad choices since Pizzaro and a bunch of other Spanish conquistadores crushed them. You should be seeking the closest of relations with the U.S. of A.


11 posted on 05/17/2026 5:43:07 PM PDT by Lion Den Dan ( )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I’m outraged (brrp).


12 posted on 05/17/2026 5:43:59 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: Ge0ffrey

Speaking of flaming liberals:

The Minutemen - I Felt Like A Gringo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGFsOqB60Rw


13 posted on 05/17/2026 5:44:13 PM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I am wondering, how many gringos are going to pay that money.
My guess is = 0 !


14 posted on 05/17/2026 5:45:07 PM PDT by AZJeep (sane )
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To: Lion Den Dan

Cortes…. Pizarro dealt with the Incas. But basically the same deal… We should have just annexed Mexico after the war in 1850. Mexico would certainly be a lot better off.


15 posted on 05/17/2026 5:45:33 PM PDT by Rummyfan (Ok In anyq war between the civilized man and the savage, support lthe civilized man.👨 so t tv)
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To: Lion Den Dan

Of course that would mean no celebration of Cinco de Mayo as the French would have never been there trying to set up a puppet state.


16 posted on 05/17/2026 5:47:04 PM PDT by Rummyfan (Ok In anyq war between the civilized man and the savage, support lthe civilized man.👨 so t tv)
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I know. We find it smirkingly funny, not shut-out-offended!

Though I'll bet there are some Lefties who went down there to get away from Bad Orange Man who are quite offended! You can almost hear them screaming at the top of their lungs:

"WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS TO US? WHY ARE YOU TREATING US THIS WAY? WE SUPPORT YOU-WE'RE ON YOUR SIDE! WHY? WHYYYYYYY?"

It is what Leftists yell, stammer, or cry weepingly when their masters turn on them because they are either done with them, suspicious of them, or feel threatened by them. And they cry out because they thought they would be right there in The Party with the rest of them.

They never stopped to understand that everyone cannot be in The Party.

17 posted on 05/17/2026 5:47:43 PM PDT by rlmorel (Factio Communistica Sinensis Delenda Est)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Mexicans in America: cultural enrichment.
Americans in Mexico: imperialist intrusion.


18 posted on 05/17/2026 5:54:57 PM PDT by Orosius
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Do you have to get a blood test or is it based on your ID?


19 posted on 05/17/2026 5:55:42 PM PDT by chrisser (I lost my vaccine card in a tragic boating accident. )
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To: Rummyfan

President Polk wanted to take all of Baja California and Mexico down to the Yucatan Peninsula outright no one would or really even could have stopped us. We should have, resources, agricultural lands too. There would be no cartels. Ask Gemini or Grok to show your the map of what Polk wanted it takes 10 seconds of effort.


20 posted on 05/17/2026 5:57:52 PM PDT by GenXPolymath
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