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Savage Capitalism

8 May 2008

¡Viva los capitalistas!

The small shopkeeper is the kind of guy who will fight for his right to vend his wares.  As they did yesterday in Itzapalapa, turning over a police car and requiring 200 coppers to close them down in the process.

This always seems to happen when cities spruce up their downtowns. “Cleaning up the city’s image” forces shoppers to hit the ‘burbs for some essentials and favorites.  Most of the Central Mexico City informal merchants agreed to a relocation deal earlier this year, but there were a few holdouts and dealers in … uh… specialty products … who didn’t take up the city’s offer, but did manage to find new outlets in the suburbs.

I gather these merchants put some thought into their new location.  With San Martha Acatitla prison looming in the background, maybe Acatitla Metro Station brings in a good walk-in trade for these businessmen, specializing in counterfeit jeans and pirate DVDs, and a few specialty goods like narcotics and handguns.

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  1. Mr. Rushing's avatar
    8 May 2008 6:59 pm

    Theft is not Capitalism. It is the government’s job to protect the inovators and inventors from theft and fraud. These people are nothing more than anarchists.

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