Mexico City's windshield cleaners face extinction
Mexico City: The tool of their trade is a flannel rag and their office is the street. They are the windshield cleaners, and their livelihood is now threatened by parking meters.More than four million vehicles
"I leave my car at the entrance to my office, he parks it and brings it to me when I'm ready to leave, all for 30 pesos ($2.30) a day," Carlos Perez, a customer of this informal service who doesn't worry about leaving the keys to his car every day with someone he hardly knows, told EFE.
It's the price one has to pay to avoid driving around the block a thousand times to find an empty parking place, something almost impossible in certain districts of the Mexican capital taken over by windshield cleaners like Hugo Diaz, 32, who after 10 years in the business says he works "from dawn to dusk" to put food on the table for his family.