NEWS & CULTURE

How Coca-Cola Is Killing Mexico

fern | October 25, 2024

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Residents of one Mexican city drink over 2 liters of soft drinks per day. This has catastrophic health consequences for the population. How could it come to this? And what role does Coca-Cola play?

Thanks to Dr. Jaime Page Pliego for his valuable insights.

Key reporting on this topic:
Unreported World – Mexico’s deadly Coca-Cola addiction https://youtu.be/hqnUohxXV0I
Journeyman Pictures – Coca-Cola’s Corporate Takeover Of Mexico https://youtu.be/3wrpxfCJ_EA
New York Times – In Town With Little Water, Coca-Cola Is Everywhere. So Is Diabetes. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/14/world/americas/mexico-coca-cola-diabetes.html

All our sources:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Enn2fslnjOllUQ_oarJ7GYTm-lOjVZPIypNZ2-N_JI4/edit?usp=sharing

0:00 Intro
3:50 1. Why is the water scarce?
7:00 2. Why is everyone drinking Coke?
10:38 3. How does it affect the population?
12:48 4. How did it come to this point?
17:13 Own opinion

Music:

Artlist

Brianna Tam – Intrepid; Circularity
Max H. – Conflicts; Back Home
Yestalgia – Flat White (feat. Mantrick)
Maya Belsitzman & Matan Ephrat – The Day Before
Tilman Sillescu – Wait And See
Yehezkel Raz – Deep Blue Sea (Instrumental Version); Corals Under The Sun (Instrumental Version); Morning Sunbeams
Charlie Ryan – Oscillating Form
Francesco D’Andrea – With Some Malice; Mad At The Ballet
Ardie Son – Aftershocks; Convolutions; Interlude Fury
Annie Zhou – Inner Canyon
Tomas Novoa – Vuelta Al Sol (Instrumental Version)
Red City Hero – After
Ian Post – Yule
Roger Louis Harmon – Pizzicato In The Jungle
Alon Peretz – Asturias
Tom Goldstein – Mirrors
G-Yerro – Value
Raz Burg – Back To Silence
Stanley Gurvich – Free Radicals
Theatre Of Delays – Distant Worlds
Mogli The Iceburg – Ghost (Instrumental Version)