Oppression and Privilege

While growing up in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, in the late 1970s and 1980s,  Yadira Del Rocio Hernandez Mendez saw only a few Americans who either studied art in the 14th century colonial town or made San Miguel de Allende (SMA) their permanent home. By the time Mendez reached her late teens, she noticed more and more Americans on the streets of San Miguel. “Some people liked having the ‘new’ people in town; others did not because the town was changing, it was no longer the same,” she said.