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International Business Times
International Business Times
Business
Jean Arce

For Some Residents Of Mexico's Cancun, Beach Seems World Away

'Those of us who live and work here hardly have time to go and enjoy the beach and sea,' says Yazmin Teran, a schoolteacher living in the Mexican beach resort city of Cancun (Credit: AFP)

The sun-kissed beaches and turquoise waters of Mexico's Caribbean resort of Cancun attract millions of visitors, but schoolteacher Yazmin Teran is lucky if she enjoys them a few times a year.

Like other Mexicans living on the fringes of the major tourist destination, she feels her working-class suburb and the luxury hotel zone are worlds apart.

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