Mexico City’s Mercomuna to Support 335,000 Families This Year
The expanded program replaces the previous subsidized cards, which could only be used at large chains, with vouchers redeemable at public markets and neighbourhood stores.
The expanded program replaces the previous subsidized cards, which could only be used at large chains, with vouchers redeemable at public markets and neighbourhood stores.
“In Mexico, we build peace, governance with justice, sustainable development with well-being, humanism, & a gender perspective,” said Rosa Icela Rodríguez, at the XVI Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean.
The program will be available for residents of neighbourhoods with high incidence of crime, who will be able to access a benefit of 8,500 pesos monthly for a year.
A dubious organization with a dubious name, We Are All Hosts, has been participating in the neighbourhood forums.
The dialogues were announced in the aftermath of recent anti-gentrification protests, and will discuss Clara Brugada’s 14 points to tackle the festering issue in the city.
The proposals include rent control, public housing, regulating Airbnb and other platforms, and an Ombudsman’s office.
Blueground is the largest provider of 30-day minimum stays in Mexico City; like Airbnb, it is funded by WestCap, an investment fund headed by Airbnb’s former CFO.
Ximena Josefina Guzmán Cuevas and Jesús Muñoz Vega, murdered Tuesday morning, were young officials with long careers, public servants in the left-wing Morena administration of Clara Brugada.
Parallel to the problem of adequate housing for migrants is a much more troubling issue: the crisis of lack of empathy, lack of solidarity, and covert xenophobia among certain sectors of Mexico City.
Feminists have applauded the Utopias for years because Brugada’s was the only vision to become a reality that embraced the significance of creating care facilities for the long-awaited national care system