Sudetenland Tales by Edward Drobinski - HTML preview

Sudetenland Tales

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The surge has helped businesses in areas popular with foreigners and landlords or those renting rooms on long term stays on platforms like Airbnb. But it has also threatened to make large swaths of the city, where the average monthly salary is about $370, unaffordable to many locals.

Some protesters had likened the influx of Americans and Europeans to a modern form of colonialism, with Frente Anti Gentrificación Mx, one of the grass roots groups that organized the demonstration, calling on people to protest against "American imperialism" in a post on social media.

The group said on social media before the demonstration that gentrification amounted to "a silent expulsion."

The demonstration in Mexico City is part of a broader movement against mass tourism that has cropped up in increasingly unaffordable cities around the world, including a recent wave of protests in Italy, Portugal and Spain.