Corporate Vandals: Companies Indiscriminately Saturate Neighbourhoods Around World Cup Venue with Advertising
Disgruntled residents pointed out that the area has lost its sense of community and now resembles an “advertising corridor”.
Corporate Crimes
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United Steelworkers Request Canadian Criminal Intervention Against Orla Mining
The USMCA Rapid Response Mechanism confirmed union meetings and workers were targeted and threated by armed individuals.
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Río Sonora Basin Committees Accuse Grupo México & Government of Trying to Close Toxic Spill Issue
Grupo México failed to clean-up one of the worst environmental disasters in Mexico’s history, while a government complaint pertaining to it was withdrawn after closed door meetings which failed to consult affected communities.
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Organizations Reject Mexican Government Meeting with Tobacco Industry
Meeting with an industry that “only seeks to sell its products and make profits at the expense of the health and lives of its consumers,” is contradictory and dangerous.
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FIFA’s a “global power of dubious integrity”, World Cup “bombards with advertising,” Football “is a manipulative lie”: Social World Cup Fails To Thrill Mexicans
Polling by Mexico’s La Jornada reveals Mexicans largely unimpressed with the football spectacle.
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Camino Rojo & The Narco Cover-up
The state’s unwillingness to deal with criminality & union-busting at Camino Rojo means the Canadian corporation Orla Mining is laughing all the way to the bank, along with its drug-trafficking cronies who protect its interests at gunpoint.
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Camino Rojo: Impunity & Reluctance
What special privilege do mining corporations (both national and foreign) enjoy in Mexico, where they get away with everything, even in these times when the law is supposed to be applied equally without exception?
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Mexico’s Agriculture & Economy Secretariats Pushing to Stop Labeling GMO & Toxic Pesticide Use in Food
Mexico’s Secretariat of Health was to have established mandatory labeling regulations a year and a half ago, but is in violation of the General Law. Critics point to industry interests.
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Mental Health at Risk
The damage to the mental health and lives of millions of people may already be, to some degree, irreversible; the question is whether we will have the capacity to regulate digital platforms.
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Monopolies like Nestlé Used COVID to Discredit Breast Milk: Study
The infant formula industry in Mexico took advantage of the pandemic to promote itself over breastfeeding with false information & unethical practices.
