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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



He earns some 200 pesos ($15.70) a day for watching cars in his area and he doesn't know what kind of work he'll do when the parking meters start functioning that authorities in his area recently had installed.

In Mexico City, according to estimates of the Federal District Labor Secretariat, there are some 22,000 windshield cleaners.

Of those, a total of 6,849 are registered, though not legalized, since they pay no taxes nor do they receive any welfare benefits.