Sudetenland Tales by Edward Drobinski - HTML preview

Sudetenland Tales

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Morelos, two hours south of the Mexican capital, there is a phenomenon of privileged migration that has caused changes in social dynamics and a significant environmental footprint due to the presence of new inhabitants.

Alejandro Ikingari Vargas Guzmán, a researcher at the Metropolitan Autonomous University specializing in privileged migration, said that a well established network of contacts in Mexico City allowed the arrival of Argentine, French and Chilean migrants dedicated to art, academia and a high economic level to this region.

"As a result of the pandemic in Mexico City, the upper middle class from abroad began to arrive and the upper class of Ciudad de Mexico, formerly Mexico City, went to towns like Tepoztlán to settle and carry out their own process of gentrification," said the specialist in land use planning projects.

Vargas has been able to observe how privileged migration in this area is related to processes that he describes as neocolonialism, where the local population benefits from the purchasing power of the new inhabitants, but then becomes dependent on them and is subject to having their jurisdiction or beliefs imposed on them.

The researcher denounced that the presence of these new communities with an extractive profile has caused water