Mexico’s biggest fear right now is not Trump

Mexicans are protesting by a thousands, looting and even forcing a U.S. to temporarily tighten a border.

But their rallying cry isn’t opposite President Donald Trump and his threats opposite Mexico.

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They’re marching opposite outrageous gas cost increases — dubbed “el gasolinazo” — that went into outcome in early January.

“What Trump is doing doesn’t shake us…El gasolinazo concerns us,” says Fernando Mejia Ortiz, a painter from Cabo San Lucas, who was visiting Mexico City with his mother Eva.

As partial of a devise to deregulate prices and cut behind on subsidies, a Mexican supervision lifted gas prices as most as 20%.

The travel led to aroused protests via a country, withdrawal during slightest 6 passed and 1,500 arrested.

Hundreds of gas stations also sealed down for fear of looting.

Prices were ostensible to go adult again on Feb 3, though a boost was dangling after a protests and amicable backlash.

The Mexican supervision motionless to check a second cost boost to Feb 18, citing a sensitivity in general oil prices as one of a categorical reasons.

In December, Ortiz used to compensate 520 pesos (about $25) a week for gas. Now he pays 580 pesos.

“It can seem like a small though when we are counting it over time, we notice it,” says Ortiz, 38, who earns about 2,300 pesos ($112) a week.

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Over a weekend, Mexicans continued to protest, holding to a streets in Mexico City and other towns. In a extent city of Tijuana, protests got so out of hand that U.S. officials motionless to temporarily tighten a border.

It’s an generally tough time for Mexicans, given their currency, a peso, has depressed in value to record low levels. It’s declined 11% given Donald Trump won a U.S. presidential election.

Trump’s threats opposite Mexico have enervated a peso, and could severely repairs Mexico’s economy, that ships 80% of a exports north of a border.

Mexicans know Trump could harm their jobs, salary and also a income that kin in a U.S. send home. A large criticism opposite him is scheduled for this Sunday in Mexico City.

But during a moment, gas cost hikes are attack wallets.

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But it’s not usually gas. Food prices have left adult as a outcome of a gas cost hikes, as companies assign some-more to float food and goods. Local media reported in Jan that food prices had increasing in 17 of Mexico’s 31 states, with prices of eggs going adult 16% scarcely overnight.

Javier Ramos, a lawyer, says he is slicing back, even shopping reduction duck given of aloft gas prices.

To feed his family of five, he used to buy a 1,000 grams (over 2 lbs) of chicken. Now he’s bringing home about 750 grams (1.6 lbs) for his family of 5 including his mother Claudia, daughters Angie, 8, and Zuria, 4, and 3-year aged son Aaron.

“We’re some-more disturbed about el gasolinazo given it hurts a pockets right now,” says Ramos, 33, as he watched Zuria burst around a sprinkler playfully.

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Ramos says it’s not that he’s not disturbed about Trump and what it means for Mexico’s future. But right now, gas prices have turn a executive partial of a kitchen list conversation, some-more than a new U.S. president.

In further to pushing his Mazda Impreza to get to his pursuit everyday, Ramos uses Uber a lot. A standard Uber float in Dec cost him 80 pesos. Now Ramos says it’s 110 pesos. He’s slicing behind on regulating a app too.

And life isn’t any easier for Uber drivers like Juan Manuel Estrada, a lifelong proprietor of Mexico City.

He used to compensate between 1,400 and 1,500 pesos a week for gas. Now gas costs him 2,200 pesos a week. Estrada, 62 and happily married with 3 adult kids and dual grandchildren, earns about 4,000 pesos a week as an Uber driver, his usually income.

“Look, right now, as a Mexican from Mexico City, a cost of gasoline,” is some-more concerning than Trump, says Estrada. “Everything is going up…going out to eat, to buy clothes, it’s some-more expensive.”

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