A social media post by a nightclub in Mexico City has gone viral for its explanation of its entry fee policy, which charges American visitors US$300 in what the club calls “a political stance.“
Mexican citizens and those from other Central and South American countries pay $14, while people from elsewhere pay $20.
An Instagram statement shared by the Japan nightclub in the Roma Norte neighbourhood, located just west of the city’s centre, said, “It’s not that ‘we charge gringos more’ it’s that we offer discounts to people that need it,” adding that American visitors simply don’t receive the discount.
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The post explains that Americans pay a full-price 5,000-peso entry fee; people from any other country get a 93 per cent discount; Mexicans and Latin Americans receive 95 per cent off, while students and teachers receive 97 per cent off, meaning they pay just 150 pesos (CAD$12) for entry.
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The club’s owner, Federico Crespot, told The Guardian that the staggered pricing was introduced in response to strained relations between Mexico and the U.S., where the Trump administration has targeted Latin American immigrants residing in the country.
“This is a response to a year of insults directed at us — as a country — by the United States,” he said.
“It’s very much a response to the many attacks against Mexico from Trump,” he continued, adding that it was also a reaction to rising prices as a result of gentrification in Mexico City.
In a follow-up post on Wednesday, the nightclub said its policy “in no way reflects any animosity or negative feelings toward American citizens as individuals.”
“This is a political stance,” it explained, adding that the club had taken the approach to prompt conversation about the treatment of Latin Americans in the U.S. and the negative impacts of foreign tourism on locals.
“We believe that the citizens of a country are the ones who elect and remove governments. We believe in voting, protesting, and grassroots organizing to achieve these goals, and we encourage American citizens to take the reins of their country,” the statement continued.
The nightclub’s posts follow a wave of backlash against American tourists and other foreign visitors in Mexico City, whose presence is driving up rents and pricing out locals in neighbourhoods like Condesa and Roma.
Protests broke out last July and at times became violent, with some marchers smashing windows and carrying signs that read, “My city is not your Airbnb.”
The violence marked a furious end to a more peaceful march that mostly called out the masses of American tourists who have flooded into Mexico’s capital in recent years.
Graffiti over shuttered businesses and strewn across walls read, “Get out of Mexico” and “Gentrifiers and Colonizers.”
Some in attendance held posters that said, “Gringos, stop stealing our home,” while demanding local legislation to better regulate tourism levels and introduce stricter housing laws.
Tension had been mounting in the city since U.S. “digital nomads” flocked to Mexico City in 2020, many to escape COVID-19 lockdowns in the U.S. or to take advantage of cheaper rent prices in the Latin American city.
— With files from The Associated Press
Are there any Canadians that care?
We should charge Americans $1,000.00 at the border; after what they’ve done to their own country, we can’t be too careful.
What a none event article !!!
Answer this if someone wanted to charge $300 for entry to a club would you pay or walk away ?
If Mexico wanted to make a political stance wouldn’t they charge American’s for entry to the country ? Very poor reporting once again Global.
Elbows Up Canadians should be charged even more.
And then when they get their wish and tourists stop coming, they cry ” why we’s so poor”
Trump only loves himself and money
Odd, Trump loves immigrants from Mexico and other countries as long as they immigrated legally.
Sorry US. You know this is obviously the fault on your current leader, Trump. Blame him.
Good should be a thousand
Federico Crespot clearly doesn’t want American’s (or any perceived Anglo-Americans or Europeans, ie whites) in his club bar, so tourists don’t go somewhere you are not welcome, including the whole of Mexico City for that matter. If they don’t like the “gringo dollars” coming into their city, let them enjoy their “cheap pesos”. Spend your vacation elsewhere and not where people call your “Gringo” and feel like they are better than you and like you owe them something.
$300 to get into a crummy Mexican bar…. That money would be better spent at an all inclusive hotel, with their own dance bar.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha 😂