Real-Life Mexican Superheroes Give the Bad Guys a Run for Their Money
Daniel Lastra - VOXXI
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September 24, 2014
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Superhero Peatonito is helping Mexico City pedestrians navigate the chaos in the largest city in the world, as he faces millions of cars and bad drivers in his bid to make the streets safe. (Al Jazeera)

Your cities are overrun with lawlessness on dangerous streets, and it’s not the drug cartels you’re worried about; caped and masked heroes have taken on the task of vigilante justice and civility into their own hands - filling the void police are too powerless to fulfill. It’s not a scene from the latest Marvel comic, but a real life scene from the streets of Mexico.

Meet the real life superheroes of Mexico; they’re being compared as the Mexican “The Power Rangers” but they wear Lucha Libre masks and capes. Their names are Peatonito (Super Pedestrian), Ciudadina (Super Citizen) and Ecologista Universal (The Universal Ecologist).

...In a country that continues to deal with the growing pains of their own industrial revolution - overcrowded cities and crime–these everyday Super Heroes have become the answer to that famous call.

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