A group of affected people delivered the petition to the City Hall with the hope that it will be heard by the president.
Merchants have begun to throw away entire boxes of unsold products.
Héctor Ruiz Mejía.- After two weeks of being relocated to the interior of the Jocotepec Municipal Market, the merchants suffered a drop of up to 95 percent in their sales.
For this reason, last Monday, January 31, a small group of those affected presented a document to the municipal trustee, Carlos Alberto Zúñiga Chacón, in which they expressed their dissatisfaction and concern about the situation.
The letter proposes the relocation of their stalls to the corridor that connects the DIF with the Main Plaza where there are still two fruit stands, permission to sell in the banquette of the same market, or relocation to the private street Josefa Ortíz de Domínguez.
These alternatives were presented with the intention of reaching a compromise between the plans of the municipal president, José Miguel Gómez López, to «free the streets» and the merchants to survive in the face of the declining sales.
Driven by desperation, some of those affected have opted to sell in the small plaza of La Campana where, according to those consulted, their average daily sales have remained at around 20 or 30 pesos. Although there were days when they did not sell anything and their expenses continue to accumulate.
«I have to pay my rent for Monday. It is 3,000 pesos and so far I only have 900 pesos,» said one of the newly located vendors, who opposed the measure and is the breadwinner for four children.
«How am I going to do it, what am I going to do with 20 pesos,” said another of the vendors, who said that her family managed the business of selling in the streets of the municipality for more than 40 years and that now, she does not understand why she was evicted.
The same happened to those who remained in the stalls assigned to them by the City Hall on the second floor of the market, where very few people go because they have to climb stairs and the elevator is out of service.
According to the vendors, the lack of accessibility has already caused an unfortunate accident. An elderly lady fell down the stairs when she went to get her «usual nopales,” Fortunately, the fall did not go beyond a «good blow and a scare.»
Finally, the merchants said that they will continue looking for ways to improve their income, since they are not willing to continue investing in fruits or vegetables that will end up in the garbage.
Translated by Sydney Metrick
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