Through the different directions of Culiacan the increasing appearance of exchange houses to market Dollarswhich shows that at least Culiacan it's a city increasingly dollarized in its economy.
It is no wonder, if you add the remittancesthe exports and the foreign direct investmentthe total flows of that currency from the economy of Sinaloais equivalent to 15 percent of the gross state product.
The exchange houses They are more directed at remittances calls from pocket -those that are not managed in institutions or in documents- but in cash. According to the Bank of Mexico, in 2022, Sinaloa obtained 1,217 million dollars in remittances, almost three times the amount of foreign direct investment, which was only 415 million. In 2023 the remittances suffered a drop in Sinaloa, as they were reduced to 1,113 million Dollars as a result of the second Culiacanazo that slowed that flow, since much of it comes from organized crime activities.
Culiacán receives at least 40 percent of these remittances, which means that it is a large market that tends to grow and shows a peculiar urban geography, where these establishments are part of the City's landscape, especially in shopping plazas and Great avenues.
About this interesting phenomenon, the doctor in sociology, Diana Zomera Partida, wrote the work “The dollar exchangers of the Mercadito Buelna de Culiacán: mediation between legality and illegality”, which is included in the book Mujeres sinaloenses. Social identities under construction, coordinated by Ana Luz Ruelas and Silvia Evelyn Ward Bringas under the editorial seal of the Pedagogical University of the State of Sinaloa and Tirant Lo Blanch, which will appear next May.
The author carries out a study from a gender perspective, of what is still the main street market, open-air for the sale of dollars, which uses young women of good appearance as a workforce, to test some hypotheses regarding how markets exist. illegal and informal jobs, where women are exploited.
We share with readers some passages from this interesting essay.
“Historically, the man-woman relationship has developed under machista assumptions of a patriarchal nature, which not only privileges men and their practices in the social hierarchy, but also demands a certain stereotype of women, femininity and feminized body. Therefore, the set of activities assigned to women to carry out are assumed to be of less importance or significance than those carried out by the former. This manifests itself in any space that involves a split in social interaction: home, work, public space, school. “Drug trafficking as a lucrative business that emerged in capitalist modernity has also used this system of organizing productive work to expand and strengthen itself.”
From that perspective, Diana Zomera analyzes the open-air dollar market at the Mercadito Buelna, run by attractive women.
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