Protesters, mostly young people, marched from Fuentes Brotantes Metrobús station to El Caminero after 3:30 p.m., chanting slogans like “housing for living, not for investment,” “we are not a hostel, we are an ancestral neighbourhood,” and “the gringos gentrify and the government sponsors.”

Hundreds of Indigenous people and young people marched this Sunday along Insurgentes Sur Avenue in the downtown area of Tlalpan, protesting the gentrification taking place in southern Mexico City.

With slogans such as “housing for living, not for investment,” “we are not a hostel, we are an ancestral neighborhood,” and “the gringos gentrify and the government sponsors,” the protesters, mostly young people, left the Fuentes Brotantes Metrobús station after 3:30 p.m. , heading toward El Caminero.

Previously, they displayed a banner with the message “Closed due to ecocide” during the development of the Fuentes Brotantes 134 subdivision in Tlalpan borough.

They argue that this is a risk to the neighbourhood and a mega-project that would disrupt fundamental services like water delivery for households in the region.

“Those accountable are the real estate corporations, both Mexican and international, as well as the municipal and federal administrations that have permitted and supported gentrification. It is critical to emphasise the government’s contradiction: while it provides money to finance weapons and militarisation, it pushes housing and other social necessities to the sidelines,” declared the Anticapitalist Youth Group, which was present at the march.

When the demonstrators reached El Caminero, they resumed their march towards Ciudad Universitaria. Although much of the mobilisation was peaceful, when they arrived at the Metrobus stop, some of the black bloc members sprayed graffiti and tossed smoke bombs at the police block that had been protecting the march.