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‘I won’t be displaced again’: the fight to save London's latin market

Community members and traders mobilise to save a Seven Sisters market from regeneration plans that could transform it into “unaffordable” flats and chain stores.

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A woman at the market in Seven Sisters.

Marsela, a waitress at El Manantial restaurant in the market. Photo: Valeria Costa-Kostritsky.

It’s easy to miss "Pueblito Paisa," London’s only indoor latin market, as it's almost hidden from the main road in the north-eastern Seven Sisters neighbourhood. Inside, children play and teenagers hang out amid the maze of restaurants, cafés, beauty salons, and stores selling Latin American food, clothes, African fabrics and telenovelas.