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What Cancún’s Tourists Don’t See Is a Sprawling Concrete Jungle

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Summary
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77% Informative

Cancún , Mexico ’s over-promoted and hugely popular tourist destination, has exceeded its tourist carrying capacity for more than a decade .

Celia Pérez , a 33-year-old single mother from Guatemala , says she envies the rich.

She rarely has enough time and money to go to the beach and cannot find green areas or decent, safe public spaces for her son to play.

For the wealthy, jungle is being removed to build luxury complexes adorned with grass; for the rich, new developments come complete with gardens.

Cancún registered 21 neighborhoods with a high or very high incidence of crime, 19 of which are located in the northern zone where green spaces or public parks are scarce.

Public spaces are generators of social cohesion, where people meet and recognize each other, creating identity.

They help to densify the social fabric, contributing to improve security, especially for vulnerable groups.

VR Score

78

Informative language

78

Neutral language

32

Article tone

semi-formal

Language

English

Language complexity

47

Offensive language

not offensive

Hate speech

not hateful

Attention-grabbing headline

not detected

Known propaganda techniques

not detected

Time-value

short-lived

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