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Born in the south of Mexico, she was raised in rebel Zapatista autonomous municipalities to later settle down in San Cristobal de las Casas where she cofounded ''La Casa de las Flores'', a non-profit dedicated to educate, feed and care for the marginalized children living on extreme poverty in the streets of her city. After graduating from Nursing school she enrolled in Biotechnology and Astrophysics.
The City Of Abandoned Luxury Cars
It is not rare to find Mercedes, Porsches, BMWs and even Ferraris abandoned and gathering dust in streets and parking lots of this city. Can you guess which city I am referring to? Some cities suffer from high crime rates, others from pollution issues. This one? Has an increasing problem with abandoned luxury automobiles. It's Dubai.
Some of them can be found with documents and apology notes simply left on the windscreen, and if you are a little bit lucky, there are a handful of them which are left with the keys still in the ignition.
The United Arab Emirates has a serious car culture. However the global economic crisis came along in the shape of investor loss, and seemingly overnight, it burst everybody’s dream bubble. Thousands of the finest automobiles ever made are now being abandoned every year since Dubai’s financial meltdown, left behind by fleeing owners with crippling debt.
This reminds me a little bit of former fashion designer, racer, philosopher and artist Michael Fröhlich’s car collection; Jaguars, Rolls-Royces, Porsches, Mercedes-Benz and BMWs, all of them antique and beautiful, yet deliberately left in the forest at the mercy of mother nature.
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