Puerto Vallarta and Mexico News

Puerto Vallarta and Mexico News

Mayor of San Miguel de Allende doesn’t want ‘short, brown, and ugly’ street merchants in tourist zones

In a press conference for local media, merchants from the Historic Center of San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato denounced the discrimination by Mayor Mauricio Trejo Pureco by not allowing them to sell products for being "short, brown, and ugly."

Sandra Granados Guzmán, a merchant, affirmed that Mayor Trejo Pureco warned her and other colleagues that they cannot sell in the center since they are not visually attractive.

“For him we are ugly, we are dark, and he does not like what he sees in the garden when he sees us and he does not . . .

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