According to the municipal president, they have until January 1st to relocate inside the market or in other areas to be set up by City Hall
Street vendors on Morelos street
Héctor Ruiz Mejía – As of January 1, the municipal president of Jocotepec, José Miguel Gómez López, intends that all public spaces in the municipal capital will be free of street vendors. In particular, Morelos and Josefa Ortiz de Domínguez streets in the downtown area.
Gómez López wants the merchants to occupy the spaces of the municipal market of Jocotepec, which was remodeled in recent years, and to which he intends to give life. He says many customers do not go into the market because much of the trade has been stationed for years along Morelos and Josefa Ortiz de Domínguez streets, surrounding the market.
«No one will invade the streets,» said the mayor, who during his two administrations, has been unyielding in his decision to «free» the streets and curbs from the irregular commerce along those streets.
However, according to the interviewee, there will not be room in the market for all the street vendors, because he says that only those who have been working for five years or more will be taken into account.
«Not all of them will enter the market. The long-term vendors will enter, those who have been working for five years. Those who set up only two, three years ago will be relocated» said the mayor.
Regarding the merchants who will not have space in the market, the other areas to be set up by City Hall they will be relocated have not yet been specified. Thus, with uncertainty regarding their sales, some of the vendors have resigned themselves to occupy what will be their new place, who are grateful, at least to be able to continue with their sales during the Christmas season.
«At least in December, which is a good date, we will be able to continue here, to see if sales will pick up, as they have been really worrying,» said one of the vendors who has dedicated his whole life to the sale of fruit and currently nopales (cactus).
Thus, after two previous warnings, the dispute between the mayor and the street vendors for public space will culminate in the project that «will give life» to the controversial Morelos Market, which the mayor of Jocotepec views as a good thing and assures that the sales of the merchants will not be affected.
«I’m not going to take food out of anyone’s mouth,» said José Miguel, who added that at the beginning there will be a drop in sales, but once people see that everyone is inside, consumers will have no choice but to enter the market to buy.
Thus, he declared that he will bring order to chaos, free the streets «appropriated» by street vendors and revive the remodeled market, which is dead inside. “The established, formal market will prevail, otherwise it will become a no man’s land», he explained.
Translated by Kerry Watson
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