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Amateur players take a break on a soccer field in the Xochimilco borough of Mexico City, Sunday, Oct. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)

Amateur players take a break on a soccer field in the Xochimilco borough of Mexico City, Sunday, Oct. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)

New soccer fields can be seen where ancestral floating gardens once grew in the Xochimilco borough of Mexico City, on Sunday, October 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)

New soccer fields can be seen where ancestral floating gardens once grew in the Xochimilco borough of Mexico City, on Sunday, October 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)

Cassandra Garduno plants flowers in her floating garden in the Xochimilco borough of Mexico City, Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)

Cassandra Garduno plants flowers in her floating garden in the Xochimilco borough of Mexico City, Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)

Amateur soccer players from the Tumbados team travel in a traditional canoe in the Xochimilco borough of Mexico City, on Sunday, October 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)

Amateur soccer players from the Tumbados team travel in a traditional canoe in the Xochimilco borough of Mexico City, on Sunday, October 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)

Amateur soccer players from the Chivas team play on a field in the Xochimilco borough of Mexico City, on Sunday, October 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)

Amateur soccer players from the Chivas team play on a field in the Xochimilco borough of Mexico City, on Sunday, October 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)

Cassandra Garduno works in her floating garden in the Xochimilco borough of Mexico City on Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)

Cassandra Garduno works in her floating garden in the Xochimilco borough of Mexico City on Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)

Amateur players take a break on a soccer field in the Xochimilco borough of Mexico City, Sunday, Oct. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)

Amateur players take a break on a soccer field in the Xochimilco borough of Mexico City, Sunday, Oct. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)

Miguel Serralde and Cassandra Garduno plant in her floating garden in the Xochimilco borough of Mexico City, Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)

Miguel Serralde and Cassandra Garduno plant in her floating garden in the Xochimilco borough of Mexico City, Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)

Cassandra Garduno poses for a portrait at her floating garden in the Xochimilco borough of Mexico City, Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)

Cassandra Garduno poses for a portrait at her floating garden in the Xochimilco borough of Mexico City, Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)

Cassandra Garduno walks in her floating garden in the Xochimilco borough of Mexico City, Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)

Cassandra Garduno walks in her floating garden in the Xochimilco borough of Mexico City, Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)

A man on a traditional canoe launches a soccer ball that fell into the lake in the Xochimilco borough of Mexico City, Sunday, Oct. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)

A man on a traditional canoe launches a soccer ball that fell into the lake in the Xochimilco borough of Mexico City, Sunday, Oct. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)

Amateur soccer players travel in a traditional canoe in the Xochimilco borough of Mexico City on Sunday, October 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)

Amateur soccer players travel in a traditional canoe in the Xochimilco borough of Mexico City on Sunday, October 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)

Manuel Serralde works in a floating garden in the Xochimilco borough of Mexico City, Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)

Manuel Serralde works in a floating garden in the Xochimilco borough of Mexico City, Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)

Cassandra Garduno cuts Mexican marigold flowers known as cempasuchil she grew in her floating garden in the Xochimilco borough of Mexico City, Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)

Cassandra Garduno cuts Mexican marigold flowers known as cempasuchil she grew in her floating garden in the Xochimilco borough of Mexico City, Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)

Small ancestral floating gardens are visible next to new soccer fields on the Xochimilco Lake in the Xochimilco borough of Mexico City, on Sunday, Oct. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)

Small ancestral floating gardens are visible next to new soccer fields on the Xochimilco Lake in the Xochimilco borough of Mexico City, on Sunday, Oct. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)

Cassandra Garduno cuts Mexican marigold flowers known as cempasuchil she grew in her floating garden in the Xochimilco borough of Mexico City, Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)

Cassandra Garduno cuts Mexican marigold flowers known as cempasuchil she grew in her floating garden in the Xochimilco borough of Mexico City, Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)

Amateur soccer players and families travel in a traditional canoe in the Xochimilco borough of Mexico City, on Sunday, October 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)

Amateur soccer players and families travel in a traditional canoe in the Xochimilco borough of Mexico City, on Sunday, October 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)

Floating gardens with Mexican marigold flowers known as cempasuchil grow in the Xochimilco borough of Mexico City, Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)

Floating gardens with Mexican marigold flowers known as cempasuchil grow in the Xochimilco borough of Mexico City, Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)

Miguel Serralde works in Cassandra Garduno's floating garden in the Xochimilco borough of Mexico City, Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)

Miguel Serralde works in Cassandra Garduno's floating garden in the Xochimilco borough of Mexico City, Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)