Good Evening, Mexico City one of the world's
largest, is tonight devastated after a
massive earthquake which has claimed at least 3000 lives
The entire city centre crumbled after the quake registering 7.9 on
the richter scale. Hit during the city's early
morning rush hour.
Almost a third of Mexico City
may be destroyed or seriously damaged
This was the most violent earthquake in the History of Mexico
I moved to mexico city about two months
ago and I was fascinated by this
building next to my house. This is one of
the best neighborhoods in the entire
city, and this one of the busiest streets.
How could a building so beautiful, be
completely empty? It didn't make sense to me
so I started asking questions and i
found out it was called Insurgentes 300
and in the deadly 1985 earthquake,
the foundation was broken and
the government condemned it.
For 30 years, the worst people of mexico city lived there.
Gangbangers, Drug Lords, Killers,
All occupied this building. Just four years ago,
the government kicked everybody out
again for the second time and a brave
group of people moved in again started renovating it
floor by floor. It doesn't change the fact
that it's condemned, so they're in a war with
the government's be able to do that.
We've asked them if they could give us a tour,
and they said yes. this is the story of
Insurgentes 300, and I'm excited to go inside.
Welcome to the first floor, so from what
we've heard they've only renovated the first
few floors. The elevator working to the
8th floor, and really, they were saying
after the 8th floor there's not very
many people.... except for Rambo who lives
on the 15th by himself like a badass!
This elevator is bolted,  this elevator is
bolted too. This one's the works fine.
So we're on for three, and it is the nicest
floor we've seen so far. Very clean, lots
of plants
and polish, but apparently after floor 3
it just starts to degrade slowly, slowly,
slowly,
this is floor 4, and already can start to see
some more chips on the floor, chips in
the walls... it's crazy this place used to be
the most beautiful housing,
offices, apartments for only
politicians and doctors in Mexico City.
In Latin America was a remarkable building
and now it's just this giant stone tower
half abandoned.
- Alot of these doors are welded shut man. 
- I've never seen anything like that.
You're not getting in there.
It's like the ultimate security.
So this is number 10 and the elevator
does not go past nine.
This is the first floor where there is
no elevator, and like we learned
yesterday, and it makes sense, is that if
there's no elevator to your floor....
walking up all those flights of stairs
is a long walk. So there's not
very many people living
this far up. There's still six more floors,
seven more floors, on top of this.
- Hay uno apartamento abierto
- There's an abandoned apartment we can get in.
Wow
Floor 11!
- Hay gente aqui en pisa 11?
- Una Familia
- There's one family on floor 11.
Look at the view up here though. oh my god.
So! This is our man Rambo, awesome dude.
He's giving us a little tour today. He owns
this floor, this is his floor.
I think it's pretty damn cool.
- Esto Piso 15 y 16, son los mas abandonados del edificio.
- So, he's saying floors 15 and 16 are the most abandoned of the building.
- Este local se quemo hace mas que 30 años
- He's saying it's been like this for 30 years
- Tiene Perrito?
- Si
- Es tu perro?
Aww he's got a pet dog!
Man i would live here so hard!
It's like the most bitchin department I've
ever seen in my life.
You've got an awesome house. Una casa muy padre.
this is incredible
Rambo! Te Gusta Hilary Duff?
Haha he says yes, he loves Hillary Duff
Man, No one's gonna use that book ever again.
This carpet looks like
seaweed from the ocean.
You see rooms like this all the time in
abandoned places. How did the rooms get like this?
Do people come and try to
ransack it? Open the walls looking for
money or something?
Look at this bag of old school computer chips
This is the 16th floor and rambo was saying that there's
one person who lives here.
- La arcitecta y su esposo.
- There's an architect, a female arcitect and her husband
who live on this floor by themselves and
apparently she's hard to find because she's very busy
with work so.... she must be quite successful? I'm assuming?
But a female architect and
her husband live on... live solo on the
16th floor
So after was abandoned, after
the earthquake, people who move in here
were seedy, rough, gang bangers, drug lords
because it was this amazing building
downtown Mexico City. Perfect location and it
was free housing.
The government said it was unsound, they
didn't care, they moved in and started some
really shitty stuff in here.
Dealing drugs, sexual violence, and especially on
floors 15 and 16 where we are now.
Rambo said some really bad things happened up here.
So Rambo was calling these
pigeon houses. Some of the apartments are
just layered with pigeon shit and filled
with pigeons.
Floor 17! Dude, this is supercool. One of the best views in Mexico City
Look at this empty elevator shaft. This elevator
shaft drops 17 floors.
I didn't even hear that hit the bottom.
- Es la Ciudad de Mexico.
- Si, all of Mexico City.
Damn that view is so crazy
- La Torre Latinoamericana
- The  Latinoamerican tower, where the Zócolo, or main square is.
You can see the mountains all around Mexico City.
I was following Rambo, and he was like "Let's go to the Roof"
and climbs this super thin
sketchy ladder.
Rambo!
There he is.
Alright... who's first?
Grab my grab my camera!
Dude this is the sketchiest ladder
I've climbed in my entire life.
That's the most Awkward way to get up.
It's like you're being born out of a Gorilla.
So! We're on top of the world right now, literally.
There's no guardrails
If you walk to the super sketchy edge, you can see
Mexico City below. This is Calle Insurgentes
Which is a very very busy
street. Which is the street that the
building's named off of. This is 300 Insurgentes.
but it's so wild that
we're up here. We're in the middle of the
city, and there is this incredibly huge
beautiful building that is basically
abandoned. Especially up at the top.
People see it every day, they walk by it,
drive by it every day. They sell candies,
you buy tacos next to it,
and it's basically empty. When we first
walked in we had to get through some
people and talk to one of the owners of
this place. I say owners, but really what
they're trying to do is... There in this
war, this battle between the government
and and themselves, trying to
refurbished this place, to renovate this
place and make it livable again. The
government says we want to condemn it.
The group says it's a beautiful spot downtown,
we don't want to shut it down. Why waste
a good thing? They're a bit
passionate about us showing it in a good
light. They say "Hey, let's be real. Listen it's
rough around the edges, and has some bad
stuff happen, but it's actually an
awesome spot for people. Some
people can only afford a place like this.
So they let us up to make couple videos.
We're super stoked and rambo was a God! he's a Legend!
Gracias Amigo. This is my buddy
Exploring with Cody, and exploring with Josh.
We're exploring some cool stuff in Mexico
City this week. There's our videos of
this place but it's also a few more
places to so check them all out and subscribe. See ya Guys!
I've gotta say the motto.
Experiences over Possessions
Kick the Grind
*Laughing*
Peace.
