MEXICO CITY: Municipal authorities stiffened their resistance Dec.7 to thousands of street vendors who clog the capital, announcing a ban on the so-called ambulates in the central historic district.
But it was not immediately clear whether a ban could be enforced.
Roberto Albores Guillen, a city official, said only those merchants with permits for designated markets would be allowed to hawk their wares in the downtown district long over run by ambulances.
Article extracted from this publication >> December 18, 1992
