Chapter 347 Slums

  Mexico City, the capital of Mexico, is very similar to the capitals of many Latin American countries. It occupies 20% of the country's population, making Mexico City a super city with a population of more than 20 million.

However, under this population base, excessive urbanization has led to more than 4 million people living in slums in Mexico City. Among them, 1.3 million people live in Kema Huakan, which is connected to Mexico City. The city is squeezed, and it doesn't belong to the Federal District, which makes life here quite difficult.

However, thanks to Mexico's slum renovation plan, Kemahuakan's current image has broken away from the impression of traditional slums. At least relying on the foundation that has survived before, it looks much better than many places in Hengsan. Why is this place also on the verge of Mexico City, the capital of the country of Mexico.

   It looks a bit like a remote county town.

   It's just that although the external environment seems to have improved a lot, it can't change the fundamental problem of Kema Huakan. Most of the people here don't have a relatively stable income and can only do odd jobs.

  Because abortion is illegal except in the Federal District, extramarital births have led to a large number of single-parent families in Mexico. Coupled with the income problem in the slums, even the most basic "eating and drinking" problems still occur.

  The high degree of urbanization in Mexico City has caused a shortage of water resources here. Adding the impact of beautiful capital, it has directly become a survival problem right in front of us.

  Although the Mexican authorities have imposed many restrictions, a lot of groundwater is polluted, and there is no water available during the drought and the water shortage is placed here.

  In addition to reducing the quality of water supply, it can only be alleviated by the "overhaul" of water supply in slums.

  And even during the water supply period, the tap water is still coming out weakly and slowly, and the water quality is quite bad. It is undrinkable even if it is boiled, and even ordinary water purifiers are useless.

  Drinking water of this quality for a long time will have a huge burden and impact on the body.

  So even the residents in the slums will buy bottled water as much as possible, but sometimes, there may be a phenomenon that money can’t buy it...

   Weiner was born in such a family.

  The mother gave birth to a child out of wedlock, and raised him and his younger brother alone. Such difficult conditions also made Weiner sensible at an early age. He started helping with housework and taking care of his younger brother when he was five or six years old.

Fortunately, Mexico also has compulsory education. The schools in the slum area are directly large "nursing centers". In this kind of teaching environment, it is almost a luxury to learn something useful, and it all depends on the self-consciousness of a very small number of students. .

  Weiner’s family conditions are here. It is impossible to have time to study after returning from school. Once he is out of touch, he will naturally start to resist the study itself.

  Like many of my peers, I was exposed to some gang ideas early on.

  Because of being young and daring to fight, Weiner soon stood out, was appreciated by the gang leader, and became the group leader.

   Gradually swelled up amidst the "team leader" and "beautiful", and gradually lost himself, until he was shot in the thigh during an operation.

  Although he was lucky enough to get his life back, his leg was completely useless.

  As for the little boss he was thinking about, he just gave some money and then completely dismissed it. At first, some people might come to visit, but then gradually lost contact.

   Originally, he thought that after he started to become 'beautiful', he could bring his mother and younger brother to live a good life, but the reality is that he has instead become a new burden for his mother.

   This also made him understand that this path is not acceptable, and the younger brother must not repeat his mistakes!

   What made him quite gratified was that even in such an environment, his younger brother Simpson was still a top scorer in the school.

  Whilst Weiner is now limping while participating in some odd jobs to earn money as much as possible, he also arranges chores at home, and also does this part that originally belonged to his younger brother Simpson, so that he can have a safe learning environment.

   Let him realize his dream and have the opportunity to enter Mexico Metropolitan University...

   "Brother, I'm back."

  Simpson doesn't have Weiner's jumping energy at all, and looks very quiet, which is a relatively rare character in Mexico.

  Even their mother was like a lion when she was irritable. They saw her quarreling with others more than once.

   But that's the way to survive here!

   Simpson looks a lot fatter than his brother, but he looks a little puffy and even a little bloated.

   "The rice is in the pot, drink more milk to supplement nutrition, milk is cheaper, drink less cola."

  Seeing his younger brother picking up Coke Tonton again, Weiner resisted instinctively. He had heard before that this thing is not a good thing. If it is drunk as water for a long time, it will be bad for your health.

  Now we are actually drinking water. There may be a shortage of water in the dry season, but the beverage factory has its own private well...

   "Hey~, haha, brother, that's how you came here."

   Simpson hiccupped and said with a smile, and then he once again held up the Coke bottle in high spirits to assure his brother

   "In the future, I must go to a metropolitan university and join Umbrella after graduation, so that no one will dare to bully us again."

   "Why has it changed, didn't you say to take us to the beautiful country before?"

  Hearing the change of his younger brother's new goal, Weiner also showed a hint of doting in his eyes.

   "Hey, I used to think that there was awe-inspiring, but now I find that Umbrella is even more awe-inspiring. Can you stay here instead of leaving your hometown..."

   Going to Dameimei, this is a choice that many poor people in Mexico can't get along with.

  Even Damei’s Mexican gangs are famous for their cruelty, and many special businesses are often derived.

  However, some changes began to take place after Umbrella entered Mexico.

   At the beginning, Umbrella took root, and it was really a small dozen every day, and a big dozen every three days.

  In the land of Mexico, if you don’t give face to those businessmen, no one has good fruit before.

   No one is optimistic about Umbrella.

  There are too many examples in front of us. There are not too many examples of people who just took office and said that they would rectify, but were shot dead in the office.

  But when Umbrella security began to settle in, there would be funerals from major merchants and gangs every day, and every time it was a beheading operation, every time it succeeded!

  In the beginning, even the newspapers and the media talked about Umbrella's fault, saying that they disrupted the existing order and made people live in panic.

   But slowly, with the passage of time, Umbrella's security has stood firm, and after the major talkers have changed batch after batch, they have begun to be defeated no matter how hard they are.

   There was even a performance that he avoided when running for the speaker, which also allowed Umbrella to gain a firm foothold!

   Standing firm until now, when Umbrella started to build various factories here.

  Now even if it is a dog that comes out of the Umbrella factory, no wild dog dares to **** it!

   To put it bluntly, even if there is only one member of the family in Mexico who works as a cleaner in Umbrella's newly built factory, then no gang in this family would dare to mess with it!

  Umbrella's short guard was directly killed, and the corpse was enough to dye the river red!

  Even Weiner felt a little pity. If Umbrella appeared earlier, he might have a new pursuit...

   "Today, a classmate of mine brought an Umbrella bracelet. It's so cool. I don't know where he stole the money to buy it."

   After Simpson drank the Coke, he began to eat dinner, which is a local cooking method of wrapping corn kernels and some meat fillings with corn leaves.

   All prepared by Weiner.

   Now he's crippled, but it's still okay to do this.

   "Brother's craftsmanship has improved again. Maybe he can go out and set up a stall in the future."

   After eating, Simpson licked the ketchup on his hand, knowing that this was the new livelihood his brother was considering.

   "If you go to set it up now, you will be smashed, but it should be soon."

   Weiner said with a smile, and then thought of something

   "By the way, the inspection you made an appointment for is tomorrow, right? I'll go with you when the time comes..."

   Simpson has not been feeling well recently, a little edema and easy fatigue, so he made an appointment for a checkup.

  This is Mexico City, the capital of the country of Mexico, there are still institutions that should be there, and the prescription drugs in Mexico are only half the price of Daxie...

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   Third watch, first watch~

Note: In the reality of our parallel world, although Latin America bought back surface water services in the early 21st century, the groundwater polluted by those water companies is difficult to recover, resulting in a large gap. During the drought last year, the Mexican authorities called The beverage factory stopped making beverages, but it was useless. A large number of available private wells were still in the hands of beverage factories and capital, and they did not reduce their production. Instead, they took advantage of this opportunity to sell more Drinks make money.

   Many water companies are from Gaul and Britain, but most of the grain merchants and beverage merchants are big and beautiful, and the capital is also different.

In addition, it seems that last year or the year before last, in order to curb the domestic obesity rate and related risk diseases, the Mexican authorities increased taxes on companies with high obesity control factors such as Coke. After the tax, the price of Coke is already more expensive than bottled water. But their tap water still cannot be used as drinking water, and they need to buy bottled water. Coupled with their love for sugar, they still like to drink Coke.

  

  

  (end of this chapter)