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How to Make Mexico City a Better Place for the Disabled

By Benjamin Russell

A new constitution for Mexico City could help make the capital more accessible.

The senator from Durango looks bemused. It’s the afternoon of Oct. 18, and Yolanda de la Torre, seated and wearing an electric pink suit jacket with navy slacks, is being carried up the switchback stone staircase of Mexico City’s Palacio de Minería. The 250-year-old college building, now run by the national university’s engineering department, has only one elevator. The senator’s wheelchair doesn’t fit.

“Can you imagine?” Katia D’Artigues, a journalist and disabled rights advocate who was at the Palacio that day...

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