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Montserrat Fuentes, a sex worker, arrives to Calzada de Tlalpan, the street in Mexico City where she has worked for the last 20 years and the city is building a bike lane in preparation for the World Cup that blocks cars from pulling over and cuts into the livelihoods of sex workers and street vendors, Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

World Cup hurts the livelihoods of some Mexico City workers

Cs news6 months ago016 mins

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Montserrat Fuentes stands on the same street corner where she has worked for 20 years. But the sex worker’s normal rush of clients every Friday night is nowhere to be seen. Instead, the busy Mexico City throughway where some 2,500 sex workers make their living is lined with construction, part of…