Mexicans' tax dollars at work. It seems like the centro is undergoing a massive facelift, and the sounds of chisels on paving stones and the beep-beep of dump trucks backing up compete with the fireworks and church bells.
Below is the new roundabout they're making on Universidad, close to where the house-that-is-not-ours-yet is located.
This is what 16 de septiembre, near the theater we frequent, looks like. The new paving stones are impressive and much too heavy for demonstrators to throw. I wonder if, like the French students in 1968, the workers chant "sous les pavés la plage."
5 de mayo is all torn up. It's the principal access street to the Plaza de Armas, and getting there by car is no fun:
The explanatory sign below refers to solutions. Yesterday muddy water from a broken pipe flooded the street. Not the solution the government had in mind.
I thought the refurbishing of the Plaza de Armas was finished, but it wasn't!
Recycled plywood sheeting, carefully re-assembled so as not to disturb the artwork; directions to the street vendors, access to whom is no longer self-evident; and another explanatory sign, depicting the wonders of the finished product:
All this work involves many men, working mostly with hammers, chisels, wheelbarrows, and a lot of dirt and stones. Around 1:00 pm they break for lunch and a little snooze, sprawling out over the sidewalk in any bit of shade they can find. We tiptoe around them. Who could begrudge them a descanso after working so hard.
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