Would moving government offices out of Mexico City solve its overcrowding problem?
Would moving government offices out of Mexico City solve its overcrowding problem?
Mexico’s capital has long struggled with the problems of big cities: traffic, pollution, even water shortages. The country’s incoming president Andrés Manuel López Obrador, has a controversial plan to reduce congestion by moving government offices out of the capital.
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