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‘Living proof that you can spend money on the poor’: Utopia comes to Mexico City

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Mexico City's mayor Clara Brugada has taken some imaginative steps in her efforts to undo decades of economic and cultural inequality in one of the capital’s most impoverished neighbourhoods.

The Freedom Utopia is one of 15 centres built to promote health and wellbeing for the working classes.

Free facilities include a 400 -seat concert hall where classical music classes are held and the temazcal a traditional Aztec sauna.

The centre offers free tai chi classes, yoga, aromatherapy and massages to the women.

Each utopia costs on average $5m ( 3.9 m) to build and $ 500k a year to maintain.

Some have called it the latest example of the Latin American left’s tendency to spend taxes unsustainably.

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