Foreigners?

[colleen]

During the months that Embajadoras was undergoing it's remodeling, many people were not able to sustain their businesses. Go upstairs, inside and you'll see all the open area. It was filled before. I haven't counted the # of people selling outside before and after, but it was difficult to walk thru all the sellers. There were more near the small bandstand. They are gone. The ones who survived are probably doing pretty well.

If San Miguel can control graffiti, then there shouldn't be a problem here. Wouldn't you think Mexicans would be a bit upset about the Gringolandia that city has become? Unless, of course, they have a business that caters to those gringos. If you stay in Centro in Guanajuato most of the time, you probably don't see much of it. Take a walk up Pastita. The school paints doors and walls several times a week. The areas that have alot of people nearly all the time seem ok. No problem on Alhondiga. In Pastita the gang SKUPE has even taken time and painted in many colors, a graffiti mural on the stones by the bridge heading toward Olga Costa museum. Of course nobody is there at nite to see them do it. They seem to be all over this area and up to the Panoramica. Then drive the Panoramica toward Clzda de Gdlp and Cerro del Cuarto and you'll see that it changes to TOX. You know that those guys are darn proud of what they are doing and it would be pretty easy to find out who they are. I wouldn't be surprised if there is no law mentioning it and therefore, nothing to be prosecuted. Mexicans are upset about it. They don't want to live with it, but as a friend said yesterday, it's the same old answer of shrug your shoulder, tilt your head sideways, turn up your hands and say "what can I do about it?". I also hear that since we will have a new local govmt, the guys in place now had no interest in doing anything and surely won't do anything now. I don't expect anything different from the new administration. If tourists only go to Centro then it probably doesn't matter.