‘Gringos leave’: Protests targeting travelers rise as overtourism anger grows

'Gringos leave': Protests targeting travelers rise as overtourism anger grows

Nan Palmero and his wife were at a rehearsal dinner in Mexico City's trendy Roma Norte neighborhood, ahead of a wedding of two American friends, when he said they heard a "rumbling" outside. From the restaurant's second story, Palmero described seeing a large group of people moving through the streets, some holding placards, shouting "Gringos leave." He later learned that demonstrators smashed restaurant windows and damaged vehicles, including the new car of his friends' wedding planner — a local resident — he said. "They wrecked her car, they smashed a

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