Free Books for Mexico City Subway Passengers
Blog reader Kevin told me about this new initiative in Mexico City aimed at lowering crime on the city’s subways by distributing free books to subway passengers. The article doesn’t say exactly how giving a pickpocket a book will make her not pick someone’s pocket.
“We are convinced that when people read, people change,” said Metro director Javier Gonzalez Garza.
“Now we’ll have an equal number of delinquents, but well-educated,” publishing firm director Omar Raul Martinez commented.
Imagine being in a place where the government encourages and appreciates reading so much that it initiates projects like these.
