29-30 Sept 07, Mexico City (Mexico)
Mexico City, the capital and most important economic, industrial and cultural center in the country with a population of 8 millions in 2005.
Greater Mexico City includes 58 municipalities with a population of 19.2 million, making it the largest metropolitan area in the western hemisphere and the second largest in the world. As for many other Latin American countries, crime is among the most urgent concerns facing Mexico. Drug trafficking rings play a major role in the flow of cocaine, heroin, and marijuana transiting between Latin America and the United States which has led to corruption, with a deleterious effect on Mexico’s democracy. Drug trafficking and organized crime have also been a major source of violent crime.
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The country has experienced increasingly high crime rates, especially in major urban centers. Other metropolitan areas have lower, yet still serious, levels of crime. |
| Low apprehension and conviction rates contribute to the high crime rate. The high incidence of crime has also poured across the border and influenced crime in the US, aggravating problems including drugs, illegal immigration, gangs. |  |
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Mexico City’s inner core has about 8 million people – about the same number as New York City. However, Mexico City’s police force is only two-thirds the size of New York City’s and is organized into several ill-co-ordinated forces. |
| Policemen earn less than a quarter of their U.S. counterparts, so many officers turn to corruption to augment their pay. The organization of police forces in Mexico is complex; each police force has a different level of jurisdiction and authority, and those levels often overlap. |  |
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Mexico City is served by an extensive metro system (207 km), the largest in Latin America. The system has 11 lines in 175 stations and a 12th line is planned to be constructed in the year 2008 along with a suburban rail system similar to the French RER system. |
| One of the busiest in the world, the metro transports approximately 4 million people every day, surpassed only by Moscow’s (7.5 million), Tokyo’s (5.9 million), and New York City’s (4.9 million). |  |
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There were several walls, outside and inside the park. The ones outside were kind of noisy but with a lot of traffic coming by while the inside ones were more chilly with green, trees and music. |
| A lot of writers came from all over the country, HEM from TJ flew in especially for the MOS, Mr. Puppet from Sweden and some americans as well. Walls had different sizes for complexer and longer productions as well as for single pieces and characters. |  |
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The sun was shining, as early in the morning writers met to check out wallspace and to start creating. The scene has a lot of female writers and crews too and is very vibrant. A lot of people came by to check out the event, as well as newspaper and TV. |
| Graffiti is really strong in Mexico, the capitol is bombed very hard and has endless throw-ups, bombs and tags everywhere… cause if you get caught painting illegaly, you can easily pay off the cop. |  |
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MEJORES BARDAS - PARQUE REFINERIA – DELEGACION MIGUEL HIDALGO – A 200 MTS. DEL METRO REFINERIA……..BIG AND GOOD WALLSBARDA DEL PANTEON DE DOLORES—DELEGACION MIGUEL HIDALGO |
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I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE SOMEBODY CONTACTING ME TO SEE IF THERE COULD BE A CHANCE FOR ME TO APPEAR AS A GRAFFITI WRITER FOR THE M.O.S. ON SEPTEMBER.
SINCE I’M AN INMIGRANT FROM MEXICO I HAVE BEEN TO STAY UNDER SHADOWS, YOU KNOW FOR NOT BEING CATCHED DOING GRAFFITI. BUT I’VE BEEN PRACTICING MY SKILLS.
I ONLY ASK FOR A CHANCE TO PAINT AND REALIZE MY DREAM OF MEET SOME OF THE BEST GRAFFITI ARTISTS FROM USA AND EUROPE AS WELL.
RIGHT KNOW IM RESIDING IN STOCKTON, CA.
ANY CHANCE FOR ME TO BE PAINTING IN L.A. THIS SEPTEMBER, PLEASE LET ME KNOW BY E-MAIL.
THANK YOU
NO PUES UBO MEJORES TRABAJOS Y NO HAY FOTOS DE ELLOS EN FIN CUIDENCE ME GUSTARIA TENER UN BOTE DE ESOS
A HUEVO.
first of all we want to thank for this website cause is awesome in the whole way that u can look at it for the information that it had and the events are coOl and we conserning if we can join in the 2009 events… we will be waiting for an answer we are 3 in total … thankz
>send some pics and city as subject to info@s8yard.de
wave, then here to ask for information on the event space of 2009 around here. saludos exelente oraginacion luck and !!…….
great festival!
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