US EditionWorld Cup Means Slashed Wages and Displacement for some Workers in Mexico City
Preparations for the 2026 FIFA World Cup in Mexico City have reduced sex workers' earnings by over half, displacing many despite government offers of temporary spaces and small payments.
- In recent months, Mexico City preparations for the 2026 World Cup have lined the avenue adjacent to the Azteca Stadium with construction, disrupting the work of about 2,500 sex workers, according to sources.
- Mexico City government announced projects including stadium renovations, bike lane construction begun late 2025, and the 'Steps to Utopia' plan to prepare public spaces, affecting informal workers.
- Earnings for sex workers have fallen by more than half after bike lane construction, with one sex worker taking a second job to cover rent.
- Local merchants' leader Jaír Torruco said 100 to 200 merchants were displaced while around 250 refused Mexico City government's offer of temporary space and small payments, with talks ongoing.
- With a large informal workforce, advocates warn sex work supports around 15,000 people, and critics say the city's renovations resemble 'social cleansing' and echo past evictions during Brazil 2014.
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The World Cup means slashed wages and displacement for some of the Mexico City's poor
Preparations for the 2026 World Cup in Mexico City are cutting into the livelihoods of sex workers and street vendors near Azteca Stadium.
The works leading to the World Cup in Mexico City do not sleep, while sex workers fight against the advance, that corner them in Tlalpan Avenue, in the south of the city, an area that every night is filled with heavy machinery and emptied of customers.Karolina, known as ‘La Morena de Fuego’, walks between cranes and signs, faces workers, kicks fences and reopens lanes, convinced that if they do not let her work, she will not let them go either.
The president of the Citizen Council for Security, José Antonio Ortega, announced that our country is not ready to host the World Cup 2026 that is less than four months from beginning, as he said that in Mexico there are 17 of the most dangerous cities on the international level. It is because recently published the official report of Ranking 2025 of the 50 most dangerous cities in the world of the Citizen Council for Public Security and Crimina…
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