Coyoacan. The district cultural, intellectual, (relatively) quiet, silent and clean the metropolis as huge, chaotic, noisy and rude. English colonial architecture, roads narrow, some still in the stone, pretty houses, low, very low and different colors, red, white and blue to make the master. Coyoacan is one of sixteen delegaciones , sixteen cities that make up this urban endless. Officially counts alone, about 700 000 inhabitants (official data, then there are probably many more). Looking at the map of the city lies at the precise center, then in truth the "center" real, historical Ciudad is located south-west. Coyoacan means "place where they live coyotes" in Nahuatl , lingua franca of the Aztec empire at the time. And alone, in "small" (well, oh ...) well sums up and represents different aspects of megametropoli and the country where there is: full of history, huge differences and social inequalities. History and culture: Coyoacan gave birth to Frida Kahlo and Rivera and was the home of Trotsky (it's written right, compañero @ s?), On the edge of his area delegacional houses the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, needless to say a the largest and most important of the world, space, size, number and quality of knowledge. Then, the varieties: green and gardens extraordinarily quiet, stubbornly busiest boulevards, restaurants, bars and cafes on one side of the road, huge crowds of ambulantes the other, a veritable army (and also fierce, there is say that) people can and do anything to sell, a set of many colors, faces, age, smells, tastes, voices, screams, sounds and noises that occurs primarily on Saturdays and Sundays, when all - but really all - all space is filled with ' unlikely to humanity. But it was quiet and peaceful than the rest of the city? Here, of course: relatively ... Asì es!
And where are the disparities? Already it is difficult to see them and warn them. The uneven distribution of wealth here is not a cold economic index, you see, feel and touch. Coyoacan And you do not need to measure the Gini coefficient to realize that something is wrong. Quite simply, according to the majority of prices and the "standard of living (economic concepts, scientifically and emotionally horrible, but unfortunately makes the idea) is not too much difference with Western Europe, gringos and so on.
But just a bit out 'from the streets to find out where the coyotes were quite different. And without leaving the confines of Delegación : under the administration of Coyoacan, and close to the university, there is the Colonia Santo Domingo, which today seems to be the area with highest population density of all Latin America, or so. With incomes that have nothing to do with the center of Coyoacan. But - thankfully - with a strong tradition of social struggles. Moreover, the nucleus of the colony came from a variety of occupations in the seventies, with little laps from e più, e della polizia federale attacchi respinti to mittent. This is
Coyoacan, is the City, is Mexico, and many other things yet.
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