Mexico’s McCulture Clash
Travel Blog • Jim Benning • 10.30.02 | 1:27 AM ET
Monday’s Los Angeles Times features a report on a controversial plan by McDonald’s to open a restaurant in the historic main plaza in Oaxaca, Mexico.
The issue has been written about before, but we can’t get enough of it. Asks reporter Richard Boudreaux: “Should a multinational giant, in return for investment in one of Mexico’s poorest states, be ceded space in the very center of a culturally distinctive city?”