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Food shopping En el mercado
Food shopping in Mexico

Buying food, fruit and flowers
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Mexico has a history of high inflation.

At the end of the 1980s the currency changed from the Old Mexican Peso to the New Mexican Peso.

However, in the early 1990s some people would still talk as though it were the old peso adding "thousands" to the number.

Mónica goes food shopping in Mexico City. Video Watch  
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Natividad buys fruit and flowers. Video Watch  
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