Posted on 07/06/2025 12:08:21 PM PDT by DFG
A protest by hundreds against gentrification and mass tourism that began peacefully Friday in Mexico City neighborhoods popular with tourists turned violent when a small number of people began smashing storefronts and harassing foreigners.
Masked protesters smashed through the windows and looted high-end businesses in the touristic areas of Condesa and Roma, and screamed at tourists in the area. Graffiti on glass shattered glass being smashed through with rocks read: “get out of Mexico.” Protesters held signs reading “gringos, stop stealing our home” and demanding local legislation to better regulate tourism levels and stricter housing laws.
Marchers then continued on to protest outside the U.S. Embassy and chanted inside the city’s metro system. Police reinforcements gathered outside the Embassy building as police sirens rung out in the city center Friday evening.
It marked a violent end to a more peaceful march throughout the day calling out against masses of mostly American tourists who have flooded into Mexico’s capital in recent years.
Tension had been mounting in the city since U.S. “digital nomads” flocked to Mexico City in 2020, many to escape coronavirus lockdowns in the U.S. or to take advantage of cheaper rent prices in the Latin American city.
Since then, rents have soared and locals have increasingly gotten pushed out of their neighborhoods, particularly areas like Condesa and Roma, lush areas packed with coffee shops and restaurants.
Michelle Castro, a 19-year-old college student, was among the flocks of people protesting. She said that she’s from the city’s working class city center, and that she’s watched slowly as apartment buildings have been turned into housing for tourists.
“Mexico City is going through a transformation,” she said. “There are a lot of foreigners, namely Americans, coming to live here.
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Anti-American riots.
Being staged by who, I wonder.
I would think that the protest is the increased Snow-Mexicians on vaca in MX City.
I have no problem with this at all. They want Americans out of Mexico, give it to them. And further, stop the wiring, money orders or transfer by any means if American dollars from the US to Mexico. Quit allowing Mexican oil and oil products to cross our border. Not to mention our government giving them our tax money every year, cut that off as well. Put more emphasis on deporting Mexican illegals, all Mexican illegals. Now that the border is secure shouldn’t be an issue at all.
Isn’t it ironic.
Too bad the indigenous tribes didn’t have the same attitude when the Spanish rolled into town five centuries ago.
And I bet these same people don’t have a problem with their countrymen coming across our border illegally by the millions.
What if we had riots in the other direction?
We are a few demonstrations away if they continue trying to kill ICE agents with the help of Dems and their sanctuary city policies and encouragement by leftist TV news people and the Maxine Waters types.
Imagine a few killings and another attempt on Trump’s life.
The “turn the other cheek” crowd may change over.
Mexico City!? Not on YOUR life. EVER!
yes
almost poetic
The irony in this story of Mexicans not wanting Americans in their neighborhood is absolutely astounding.
illegal immigration for me but not for thee....
To paraphrase Lorenzo St. Dubois, “They tried; man, how they tried!”
Very.
That’s how hypocritical they are.
Who goes to Mexico City in the first place?
And they bring MUCHO DINERO $$$$! The Mexican 'government' does not immediately, or ever, provide $$$, housing, medical care, etc.
That said, there is no effen way I am ever visiting Mexico again. This Irish Catholic gringo is fluent in Spanish, reading, writing, and speaking. I have lived, worked, and even participated in some excavation of a Mayan city in Belize.
In the 1990s, when it was "safe" to be in Mexico, one of the locals explained the Mexican version of car insurance for auto accidents. If two or more cars are in a collision, the first family of the drivers to arrive on the scene "collects" for the damages to their car.
The Mexico City Museum of Anthropology is absolutely amazing. I have spent many, many days there. I will have to rely on those memories.
It already changed, here at least.
I would prefer that my niece was home before they amp up this crap. Mission work, not a tourist.
“Too bad the indigenous tribes didn’t have the same attitude when the Spanish rolled into town five centuries ago.”
The Aztecs kind of did. La Noche Triste and all that...
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