Food vendors at Mérida en Domingo make their comeback after a full year

Food vendors at Mérida en Domingo make their comeback after a full year

After a year’s absence, food vendors have returned to Mérida en Domingo.  Mérida en Domingo is the Plaza Grande’s weekly open-air event complete with performances for children, regional dancers, and now once again, lots of food.  Before the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, dozens of vendors sold snacks including fried plantains, tacos and marquesitas to…

Yucatan mayor pays street vendors to stay home
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Yucatan mayor pays street vendors to stay home

Espita Mayor Josué Castillo sent his city’s produce vendors home, but not before buying up their entire inventory. The street stalls and hand carts, many run by elderly people, were shut down for coronavirus health precautions. Castillo asked them to protect themselves from the Covid-19. But he didn’t want to leave them economically high and…

Police seek mototaxi driver who stole elderly street vendor’s fruits and vegetables

Police seek mototaxi driver who stole elderly street vendor’s fruits and vegetables

A mototaxi driver stole all eight boxes of produce that 75-year-old Doña Candelaria Carrillo had planned to sell in Uman, officials there said. “Candita,” as she is known, boarded a motorcycle taxi with eight boxes of fruits and vegetables she grew to sell at the market. But the driver made off with the inventory, which…

For street vendors, social distancing is not an option

For street vendors, social distancing is not an option

Merida, Yucatan — For some people, staying home and quarantining is not an option. José Maldonado Dzib and Michelle Ruiz Rodríguez, two street vendors who earn their livings on the corner of avenidas Jacinto Canek and Itzáes, are among them. Maldonado Dzib, who sells bags of limes and oranges, commented that due to the COVID-19…

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