Inside the 'Go Home Gringo' Riots of Mexico City
Added 2025-07-15 00:28:56 +0000 UTCHey guys,
Here's some coverage from the brave Canal Cinco team down in CDMX. This video documents a demonstration-turned-riot in protest of Mexico City's 'digital nomads,' American remote workers believed to be the cause of the city's growing un-affordability and rent hikes.
Enjoy
AC
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Comments
If you’ve ever checked out the World Economic Forum it’s one of their predictions.. you will own nothing and be happy.. mass migration etc
Robert Fields
2026-01-03 09:07:16 +0000 UTCThese remote workers are going to be replaced by AI within the next few years anyways.
Amit Kalia
2025-08-09 18:57:51 +0000 UTCwe need regulation
Emma
2025-08-07 02:20:32 +0000 UTCAfter watching the video this seems wholly on Mexico to set up regulations.. a lot of people in the comments comparing this to SF but imagine if this were NY, LA, Paris, Spain, or any of the biggest cities of a country hating on a specific race of people (although I guess Ireland and London are pretty much doing just that..). Also, it’s obvious that the comparison to Mexicans migrating to the US and vice versa is not a 1:1 comparison. However, it’s like 97% more Mexicans entering the US than the other way around. I’m not saying that’s good or bad, I just think it’s good to have context.
teddycat10
2025-08-05 17:16:27 +0000 UTCI hear you. The capitalists have commodified housing and the workers of the world suffer for it.
Dakota Baker
2025-08-03 16:17:54 +0000 UTCI completely understand their frustration with the American immigrants, but just as that one dude said... the problem isn't the one's paying the jacked up rent prices. The problem is AirBnB and the lack of laws and regulations surrounding it. I live in Colorado and AirBnB has ruined just about every single relevant mountain town/ski area. There needs to be laws and regulations enforced to prevent this shit from happening. I believe it played a significant role in the abysmal housing prices we're currently facing in the US.
Bad Andy
2025-08-03 10:16:47 +0000 UTCMan the “average weekly salary” of the USA has me thinking I’m already living in Mexico
Slunkmase
2025-08-02 05:02:28 +0000 UTCIf I were to win the lottery my first thought is how to help those with less than me. These people just wonder which population can they exploit next.
Ditnoka
2025-07-31 01:36:29 +0000 UTCThere is nothing I hate more than the American exceptionalism baked into calling yourself an “ExPaT” while you are an IMMIGRANT living in any country that is not the US.
Max Klu
2025-07-29 17:48:15 +0000 UTCHow do you get the government to just do the right thing
Zand ban
2025-07-29 08:37:39 +0000 UTCLived in sf 2004 to 2024. You are absolutely right. SOmetimes I wonder, when I would see or talk to tech workers, how it is possible for someone to have such a shallow cultureless, non interesting life. Like there is no realness to their existence. I don't know exactly how to explain it. There is a deep emptiness there, not an interesting emptiness, but just a dull blank space. feels like a cult ??
Day C
2025-07-25 00:16:20 +0000 UTCHopefully the city presidents (aka mayors), councilman & state gov't will hear the citizens and implement new laws about land and property purchases. Good point about gov't taking the land back and limiting amt of purchases per person
Christy C Sims
2025-07-24 23:51:56 +0000 UTCThe cultural loss caused by gentrification is the most frustrating aspect as someone who grew up in SF from 1998-2021. Skyhigh rents kill the creative class and make cities boring whether in Mexico or America. These same tech workers killed SF and I harbor a deep resentment towards them. Truly dull and classless people, there are plenty of Americans who could bring something interesting to Mexico culture but these people are not it. They were inconsiderate when they destroyed my city and they will be inconsiderate in CDMX.
Reuben Hollander
2025-07-22 10:24:51 +0000 UTC!!!! this !!!! And reading the comments it seems like their strategies are still working like a charm. Even on people paying for the Channel 5 patreon. Just sad.-
Oscar Leitner
2025-07-22 09:50:42 +0000 UTCa la verga con los yankees
joshua
2025-07-22 03:42:36 +0000 UTCThis is still a class war, neo capitalist economic strategies pitting people against neighbors to preserve the wealthy maintaining their wealth
Joshua Rose
2025-07-21 20:17:01 +0000 UTCBuild more homes where people want to live ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Chris D'Antonio
2025-07-19 17:46:30 +0000 UTCSame thing that happened to SF
Zac Haffey
2025-07-18 20:06:33 +0000 UTCyeah it should help every american to support the mass deportation of all illegal immigrants immediately
trythinking
2025-07-17 21:05:29 +0000 UTCthe thing is...in order to do this you basically have to make government control everything from property to prices, etc, and I know we have a bunch of morons who want to be socialists now days, but no. People can own stuff and rent it out or sell it, or whatever the zoning laws permit them to do. You would have to start making certain buildings "low income" and oh wait we have already done that before. Yeah you can call it greed, but no one cares really. What you can do is try to get enough money to buy all these city buildings and then you can give them out to everyone for free or low income, then you can foot the bill when you need to repair and upkeep all that stuff. It ends up becoming a charity. So Im all in favor of charity, but don't try to make the government be the charity because it always makes shit worse. And by the way, cities are kind of trash anyway. I used to live in nashville, its much better outside of the city and honestly it helps you see the situation alot more clear from the outside.
trythinking
2025-07-17 21:04:30 +0000 UTCIt's all about money dawg, all this nationalism is just a distraction. Americans are pissed off because rich people exploit regular people and make it too expensive for them to live. Mexicans are mad about the exact same thing, it's just that for them regular Americans are the rich people. Immigrants aren't the ones driving up your grocery prices, rich fucks who want to get even richer are doing that. Don't waste your energy on small problems when the ultra-rich are the real problem, AirBnb is pulling the exact same shit in America and it's ruining American cities too. There's no war but the class war bro.
Samuel Ellman
2025-07-17 21:02:54 +0000 UTChell no dude
trythinking
2025-07-17 21:00:09 +0000 UTCi wish those who are heated on one side or the other would step back and see that the actual issue is greed and its happening , like he said in the video, to all of these major cities on the American side too. I get the sentiment of wanting to live somewhere i can afford and work a regular 40-50 hour job. The truth here in Nashville is starting to get bleak for the people who have been here for years making it what it once was. Its really inhumain to do the air bnb-a-fication process and make a few investors really wealthy while pretending its not a huge problem to hike rent to an impossible amount and ever so subtley evict all of the now inpoverished hospitaliy workers, musicians, "essential workers" . you have to be the type of person who takes advantage of those willing to do the service jobs or the artist, to even come close to afford these inner city locations we have been clawing for the last 4 years to try and maintain. So mexico city, and all the cities in america being destroyed by capatalism im sorry. I know what it feels like to be pushed further down into the cast system of capatalism while witnessing the upper class become more distant on the horizon using the vessels we created. if we are a lucky chosen few we can be allowed to server thier wine or coffee on thier little private worlds they are commandeering from us. It sucks so much. Seeing this happening here just makes me feel so sad for our kids. it feels like its going to get worse and never better. i guess ill do my best to keep my head up. sorry for the rant .
Daniel Newman
2025-07-17 14:02:04 +0000 UTCI think it's just naturally time for the United States of America and Mexico to integrate. Eventually we could reach equilibrium as a larger society.
Wyatt Pugliese
2025-07-17 06:57:18 +0000 UTCseems so familiar. oh right. how about deport everyone and maybe the white people will want to come back to the usa.
trythinking
2025-07-16 21:09:51 +0000 UTCI could not agree more. Same for the USA. Leave, stop changing our culture and the makeup of our neighborhoods, and trying to impose languages other than English in the USA, and stay out. This dumb narrative about "America bad" and everyone else is poor and hard-working innocent amazing people is old and tired. No one gives a shit about the details anymore. How can you even be serious when talking about what they dont like about the americans over there. Its literally the exact same shit they do when they come here. Deport everyone illegal, then maybe the white people will want to come back to the USA and stop "ruining" the shitty places by actually bringing money to the economy haha.
trythinking
2025-07-16 21:02:01 +0000 UTCThis was addressed in the video... didn't you watch it?
Michael
2025-07-16 15:27:19 +0000 UTCmexicans wanting foreigners to leave their country. the irony is almost too much for me.
James
2025-07-16 14:29:25 +0000 UTCGreed is universal. Hence the need for regulations so Airbnb’s are properly taxed value to value. Amen.
Gilena
2025-07-16 07:51:44 +0000 UTCThis video should be REQUIRED VIEWING TO EVERY AMERICAN. And now a tariff on vine ripened tomatoes. I swere if it’s necessary to go clockwork Orange style one them eyelids and ear holes so be it. Excellent reporting as por usual. Muchas gracias. 🇬🇧
Gilena
2025-07-16 07:49:44 +0000 UTC2:14 Totes agree. There are two reasons we immigrate: economics or trauma. The is one reason we all do: because we all know it will be better there. Amen. 🇬🇧
Gilena
2025-07-16 07:43:19 +0000 UTCF6CKING LOVE THIS!!! Ty. 🇬🇧
Gilena
2025-07-16 07:38:37 +0000 UTCI agree mostly except in the cases where said gringos are apparently buying properties from said landlords and kicking people out to turn them into luxury rentals or airbnbs. That shit is fucked
Nathan E Simpson
2025-07-16 06:09:05 +0000 UTCMas videos de Canal Cinco por fas
Russell Ramirez
2025-07-15 20:29:07 +0000 UTCLa neta que si
Russell Ramirez
2025-07-15 20:25:25 +0000 UTCIt’s not just gringos, it’s people from all over. I personally know people who are immigrants that are being fucked by rents in CDMX because they’re immigrants. This is messed up, because it’s the very Mexicans that are doing this. The destruction of locations, only fucks the very Mexicans they wish to keep there. What they’re experiencing is economic growth, it doesn’t excuse the fucked up situation the Mexican people are living by having very low income and having prices rise, but they can’t blame gringos alone they really have to blame themselves.
Carlos Teran
2025-07-15 19:16:44 +0000 UTClol, it’s sucks that the people of Mexico are blaming the gringos for “gentrifying” when the landlords are the ones kicking them out and raising rents.
Carlos Teran
2025-07-15 19:12:00 +0000 UTCSo true honky
swellpunk
2025-07-15 15:40:45 +0000 UTCWhat’s crazy is if we did that there would be outrage. It’s becoming socially acceptable to hate white people. The Mexican government is far more corrupt than the USA. Racism is racism.
Odd Heathen
2025-07-15 15:03:37 +0000 UTCThat dude was never accused of having a brain. He's just a conveyor belt for conservative slop.
savethebaysteve
2025-07-15 12:24:42 +0000 UTCReally loving the new channel Andrew, great to see different perspectives and also helping me with my Spanish! Keep up the good work!
jamie medley
2025-07-15 09:36:16 +0000 UTCPinche Josué es la verga, más de el por favor!
Pablo
2025-07-15 06:59:57 +0000 UTCgood time to sit with some of the feelings that are coming up when you watch this
honky
2025-07-15 05:14:21 +0000 UTCThese are not Americans struggling to make a living and moving to Mexico to afford housing. They are remote tech workers looking for the next cool city. Gentrification already destroyed San Francisco, Austin, Seattle, and now CDMX is next.
Kevin
2025-07-15 04:37:18 +0000 UTCNot that this excuses any gentrification anywhere but we should also be looking into the systemic degradation that is allowing this shit to happen. In the US the housing crisis is pushing all sorts of people out to other countries started by garbage politics and preferential policies for large corporations that survive off huge subsidies provided by tax payers. Tax payers who can AND cant afford to live in their own country. There are certainly exceptions- people that are just looking for the next investment property who contribute the most to this shit but when systems pressure ppl to hoard cash any way we can theres going to be a ripple effect. We need to reform the entire economic system to bring about real change across countries but as long as those in the top 1% sit fat and happy, that day will never come.
Vann Vixious
2025-07-15 03:28:32 +0000 UTCThe combination of gentrification and soft power-style colonialism in a nutshell. The bastards worldwide are pushing for one more failed conquest {but, in my opinion, most expats don't share the blame equally with the uber wealthy, movement is a right, just don't be a dick and read the room!) but your last point is something that first came to mind when i first saw the title; and i hate to think this problem is only going to get worse as more americans get forced out of the u.s. by choice or no
m
2025-07-15 03:13:17 +0000 UTCThanks C5 for representing the range of nuance and attitudes of the locals and nonlocals.
Rachel
2025-07-15 02:47:36 +0000 UTCMan fuck Gutfield and anyone who cant see the differences between this and the hard working people coming here.
Fuzzy Dunlop
2025-07-15 02:16:51 +0000 UTCNo es sobre que el gringo se regrese a su país, si no que la manera en que inmigre no tenga tintes imperialistas como se ha venido haciendo en los últimos años. Thanks C5 for the video 🫶🏻.
donluigimx
2025-07-15 02:14:27 +0000 UTCI'm a gringo that lives in edomex, I came here to be with family, and I learned spanish so that I wasn't being the dumb gringo, because I love mexican culture. It's hard to see people getting treated like that when 9/10 times it's not really their fault, the "white tax" is very real thing that greedy mexican business owners do because they prey on the fact that most likely those young adults are not going to do the research and will just pay exorbitant prices like 80 pesos for a kilo of tortillas. But I've lived in philadelphia, and I've seen this same story so many times, the gringos are "the face" of the issue, when the real problem is with the government not doing enough to protect renters rights. I pay more in taxes as an immigrant than any of my mexican friends.
Addam Carothers
2025-07-15 01:38:08 +0000 UTCPersonally, I boycott AirB&B but everyone I know seems to use it. I work with restaurants so I feel for the places that are missing out on the foot traffic from busy office parks. But if I could work from home and live somewhere affordable? Is there a balance to be found somewhere? Can we have our cake and eat it too?
Milamber310
2025-07-15 01:12:48 +0000 UTCAl pastor lmao
Daniel
2025-07-15 01:03:58 +0000 UTCIt's obvious. It's European & American NIMBYism via City Councils (Local politics) that has remote workers doing this by denying moderate upzoning (Missing Middle Housing) of Affordable, Social, Temp and Market Rate types in moderate to affluent Euro/American areas. Now, the prev know proxy affluent area (Roma Norte) is under both gentrification and displacement because of remote workers & major abuse of Airbnbs created, in an area that ALSO cannot be upzoned (due to NIMBYism with historical architecture). San Francisco & CA (Los Angeles) was the canary in the coalmine. US got hit during COVID, and now international locations (London, Spain, Mexico) are getting hit with gentrification WITH displacement. #YIMBY There's also deportation concerns recently, but that is a different matter.
Raul Maldonado
2025-07-15 00:56:21 +0000 UTCPogo
Brandon Morales
2025-07-15 00:45:23 +0000 UTCForce office workers back into the office!! This effects small towns all over the United States in the same way!
jared dupre
2025-07-15 00:45:10 +0000 UTCIt's almost as if a bunch of people coming into a country change the culture and economy.
Case Huey
2025-07-15 00:43:20 +0000 UTCOnly 2 minutes in, but thank you! I can already tell this is going to be the perspective I didn't know I needed.
SammieTalls
2025-07-15 00:36:03 +0000 UTC
