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World's Biggest Market: Inside Central de Abasto
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World's Biggest Market: Inside Central de Abasto

51 MIN · EN · STATUS: [ STREAMING ]
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Mexico City's Central de Abasto sprawls across 327 hectares and pulls in roughly 500,000 visitors a day, making it one of the largest markets on the planet. The film follows the roughly 100,000 people who work there, from porters hauling sacks of produce on their backs to wholesalers moving truckloads of goods before dawn. Cameras track the market's rhythms hour by hour, from fruit and vegetable stalls to the stands selling everything else a household might need, while interviews with vendors and workers lay out the economics that keep a place this size running. The market's sheer scale makes it vulnerable to extortion and cartel influence, and the film treats that threat as part of daily business rather than a separate crime story, showing how commerce and coercion sit side by side in the same aisles. What emerges is less a true-crime expose than a portrait of a working city within a city, and of the labor that feeds Mexico's capital every single day.