People work at the coffee shop Don Porfirio in front of the Bellas Artes Palace in the downtown of Mexico City, Mexico, September 9, 2022. REUTERS/Raquel Cunha
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - In a trendy part of Mexico City, in a park surrounded by hipster coffeeshops and restaurants, stands a figure dressed in white with hands in prayer like a Catholic statuette: the so-called patron saint against gentrification.
Sandra Valenzuela, a Mexican activist, created the statue to rally neighbors against what she regards as a rising threat to her community and others in the Mexican capital.
