Coca-Cola's Corporate Takeover Of Mexico
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- Опубликовано: 8 фев 2025
- The Coca-Cola Effect: In Mexico, Coca Cola is more than just a brand. Its factories deplete water supplies for vast areas, whilst its products contribute to a burgeoning obesity epidemic.
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In one small Mexican village, residents are praying for rain. The ceremony appears traditional, apart from one element: a dozen or so bottles of Coca Cola. ”It’s seen as a sacred drink now", explains one resident. ”It allows you to purify your soul. That’s the power of Coca Cola.” Ironically, it is the presence of Coca Cola’s nearby factory that is partly to blame for the dearth in drinking water. The factory uses six litres of water for every litre of cola and draws it from the area’s dwindling groundwater supply. Now residents have to buy water from tankers. “I spend a quarter of my salary on getting water", says resident Rodolfo. In fact, it can be cheaper to drink solely Coca Cola: Mexico has become the biggest consumer of the soft drink in the world, to the detriment of the population’s health. The extent to which a single corporation can affect a nation is nowhere more pertinent than here.
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I find it horrifying that in a world where we can literally get water house to house individually without trucks, some people still don't have regular GROUND water to drink from corporate nonsense. Destroy the factory, purify the ground, give these people their water back.
Sad thing is most of the city is probably employed by them so they have no choice they have to support the company
@@TommyY214 I get that. I grew up in a really crappy area. Not this bad, of course, but around the Florida Plantations. It's sick. Companies know they can get away with more BS than they can in the USA so they go to places where people are desperate for income and sideline restrictions so that they can make money. i'd rather pay more for "luxuries" like soda and unneeded foodstuffs if it meant that people producing the shit were making a living wage and had a comfortable living situation.
That should not be an issue on a blue water planet.
It's very interesting how large corporations can use desalinated water, but instead get free water from the ground and never pay for it. The others pay, when they need water to drink.
It's unfair. The corporations must pay for the natural resources that they consume !
Desalination is expensive on a large scale. Also, coca cola buys the water but its taking so much that it affects weather patterns
@Jonny B we dont even get tap water as cheap as they get clean ground water. One more reason to not drink soda or bottled water. Dumbest shit ever. Idk how people can rationalize buying that shit
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"We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities." - Oscar Wilde
What is happening in Mexico, he was right.
Coca cola was an unnecessary thing became a necessity to the people of Chiapas
that's what happens when you elect a former Coca-Cola CEO. The creator's agenda was to expose the fizzy drink and hides the corruptions of former Mexican president, Vincente Fox.
The complete privatization of water, oil, electric, gas, forest and lands. Then let corporations do whatever they want. (10:25) Where have I heard politicians calling for that before?
It’s so interesting to see the indigenous people of Mexico though.
they are so pretty.
What is an indigenous mexican?
Good good. Everything in this documentary makes me happy.
I'm so embarrassed I had no idea this was going on. I knew it was a popular drink in Mexico but I didn't know they were depleting their water supply. 💔
there are multiple cocacola plants not only in mexico but in just about every other significant aquifer in latinamerica
If you look it up it also happens in India 💔
However if you have ever drink a Coke directly from Mexico it tastes much better because they use real sugar. Future Wars are going to be fought over water. There are not enough resources people need to stop having babies. I'm old and will not live to see it thank God
Kirby Burch the issue is not the babies . Allah THE MOST HIGH is ALL CAPABLE of providing for all that exists. The issue is the abundance of sins and abandonment of Allah’s commends and gross and despicable individuals who owns corporations such as Coca-Cola and governments( corporations ) who turn a blind eye to keep their own interest going. However all of that is nothing but the results of the blatant disregard of Allah’s commands (the most important of which is the sole worship of Him without any partners ) by most inhabitants of earth today . The solution is to repent and accept The only religion that He sent His prophets and messengers with .
Why are you embarrassed,not following.
Very Important documentary. Thank you for sharing. Respect Water and it should not be pimped out... All over the world. Nj-usa
i never felt so justified about my hate for the drink. i also never cried during geography homework before, but they all seemed so happy about the water purifiers at the end...
Coca-cola should make sure each resident has access to clean drinking water. They get the most and make $$so they should share.
hahahaha
Capitalism and why the world hates us Amerikkka
Communist propaganda
They should but they will never.
Get real here.
@@gabrielhuin no its definitely capitalism
The soft drink industry is the main reason we are paying for water today.
"Sacred drink" lmao that's where I draw my line
My heart breaks for these people! Corporations, such as Nestle, are allowed to commit similar thefts in the US.
They privatize the profits of the theft of our natural resources and socialize the losses.
Not editing, so much as adding.
Our politicians, both damn teams, allow this to occur because they receive money from the corporations. Here in America it is so corrupt! Flynt Michigan is a perfect example. Our government just slashed corporate taxes BIGLY, but somehow we can not afford to give the residents of Flynt access to clean water, and just a measly 3,000,000 or so less than half of us appear to be cool with it.
Best of luck to everyone. Hugs and love.
Sorry. This Ginger rants.
Raven Stark no need to say sorry :-)
Will any good come from a nation who murdered entire other nations to establish itself. You are benefiting from slave labor & destruction of the African & native ppl and culture while complaining that your being victimized? All Europeans need to just leave the occupied lands snd let us get back to natural living. All if this was set in motion when the Europeans colonized.
I wish the subtitles were a bit better... A lot of information is lost and left out with the translation. Good documentary though.
Sugar flavored sewer water. Yeeeeuk...so sad. Think of how much soda and beer drains our water supplies....Now people in the desert cry for Pepsi, Coke...instead of water...
Those kids talking about water, broke my heart..
We all failed eachother in this earth.
Thoroughly depressing 😔
I'll never buy coke products again!
Coca Cola needs to focus on desalination. Instead of stealing other people drinking water.
It's an old story. It's always due to greed, a lack of conscience and some form of state capture.
In my own home town there was a case years before I was born where a rich fellow wanted more water. So he became mayor and quietly signed off on a license for himself to build a fair sized dam upstream of the little river that flowed most of the year along the side of the town. What did anybody know about water tables back then? All the farmers were semi-illiterate and used boreholes to get water so they did not care much about the state of the river which only flowed through the land of a few people around the town. Nobody made much noise. So then eventually after he stopped being mayor he set up some irrigation and got some vineyards going. Then later sold it to a large international corporation. Now you're lucky if the river flows even for a short time in winter. And of course the water table is affected. Everything downstream of the dam is affected. The guy made his millions, his son inherited the wealth, who later committed suicide leaving 3 children behind - They probably don't even know or care about it.
So what now? All the benefit is going elsewhere. Even the grapes are exported. So there's some meagre benefit to the national fiscus, but it cost so many people so much. For what one might ask? In the end all the benefit goes to a handful of people.
It looks peaceful to live there though
Here's what I don't understand why doesn't the Coke factory just sell water. They already have a monopoly over what people drink in the region since there is a shortage of water in general. Couldn't they just sell bottled water instead of Coke?
why the fuck would you suggest watered being sold to humans when god handed it to us for free.
Good observation. And they mention that the coke is cheap like water. So why still sell coke then?
how ironic that the nurse/doctor is also overweight.
correct me if im wrong.
Do as I say don't do as I do
you missed the part where coke is cheaper and more abundantly accessible than water... theyre running out of alternatives (coca cola is depleting their ground water) so they're kinda fucked
Water is spiritual drink.
Doesn't beer take 20 gallons to make a pint or something like that?
We need to get better desalination plants I feel...
@Mischievous Emperor Farmers are selling to somebody. And in the supply chain they have the most to lose
Mexican coke is better than American coke in the stores. No corn syrup & They use glass bottles And when your done with the bottle you don’t throw it away when you go buy another coke you trade the bottle
Hi Warren!
Mexican coke is better
Mexican & Canadian cocacola are highly sought after by Many Americans. Those countries dont use High fructose corn syrup, which means their cocacola is like the coca cola of the 70's & early 80's in America....it comes in glass bottles, & it uses Cane sugar as a sweetener. it sells from bottlers, & online for a VERY high price, usually twice the cost of normal HFCS coke, but often it is listed at $100 USD per 24 bottle case.
I had no idea. Wow.
Good people. My fellow mexicans. God bless them and viva mexico
Just ONCE, I'd like to see an accurate interpretation. There is not enough room on this page for me to time stamp EVERY error.
1:16 bautizar is baptize; not "purify"
2:36 cama is bed; so BED time is over; not "nap"
2:55 de que comencé; when the day begins; not "in the morning"
3:07 ya te apures hijo; hurry up son; not dinner is ready
From that point on, I actually started listening to the language; not the substandard Google Translate. Please hire someone that can actually interpret; and stop using a translator. Interpretation deals with the actual language in real time │ Translating focuses on content.
Okay after watching the full documentary I agree it's pretty sad and I Repent from my earlier statement or at least some of them. Your government is corrupt and you should hold them accountable. Plus why would you buy Coca-Cola products when you know they are responsible
16:07 the only pepsi guy on the city, he has to life alone in the jungle,
The Coca Cola company has a lawsuit against him; he must only drink his Pepsi on the outskirts of the jungle in the bushes. If someone walks by it’s stipulated he must not act like he likes it.
@@PLUR420 is this a joke ?
I guess El Chapo was right when he said, he turned to drug selling because there was no other economic opportunity. Don't blame the Coca-Cola Corporation. Blame the Mexican government.
Thank you! I'm so tired of the MX Gov't getting off the hook by blaming racist America and evil Capitalism. The gov't, as always, is the problem.
On the other hand, Coca-Cola IS the gov't. Vicente Fox was CEO of Coca-Cola Mexico ('73-'79) before becoming president ('00-'06)
The government is at fault for allowing it of course, but it doesn't change the fact that Coca-Cola is using the only water available in this tiny, impoverished town. Both of them are to blame.
Coca Cola should make it right. Drill wells for these people, and import as much water as possible. Guess what happens when the water dries up? Coca Cola moves on to the next place. Nestle is doing the same thing in California.
And yes, capitalism is evil, and we are a racist country....and ignorant, too. Capitalism will ultimately degenerate in fascism and totalitarianism. PUT 2+2 together and you will see why.
It's sad to see babies and children drinking coke
Tragedy of the commons. That's what it's called.
just like Idiocracy (2006)
But if you hear in the middle the reason they stopped fighting has fear for their life.
I´ve stopped drinking Cola for 5 years.
thanks for sharing this, could modify your description to include Chiapas and San Cristobal de las Casas, it would greatly help raise awareness.
Every parent who gives Cola to a child deserves a punch in the face.
It's also a form of eco terrorism, depopulation and forced migration. Deplete the resources, forcing cost of something that WAS free to become almost unaffordable. Causing poverty, competition for remaining resources, droughts, decreased forest and crop yields, again driving up the cost of food, increasing competition and poverty, forcing families from their ancestral homes. Move or starve. The water permanently leaves the natural cycle as it's polluted or exported out of the region (as soft drinks) and bottled water. Sound ridiculous ? Half A BILLION liters per year for ONE FACTORY, ONE COMPANY only in that area. I wonder how the population growth is affected over the long term ? EXAMPLE ONLY : PLUS 2% PER year population growth averaged over the past 3 decades before "FACTORY A" begins drawing from regional resources. MINUS 3% average for the 3 decades after ? Minus 1% ? PLUS 0.5% (instead of plus 2%) ? Interesting economics.
Unfricking believable 😳 The Spirit Of Coca Cola is wicked😡
What are these people waiting for no one is going to fight for them. And NGOs if you people have anything left in you go to that place organize such a protest that coca cola will never forget in its lifetime.
Haha the NGOs are merely the puppets of the globalists😂
It would be brutally supressed...
Oh my sweet summer child 🤦🏽♀️
Mexico already has the problem of non-potable water and a poor sewer system. What is the story here?
“Problem”? As if not drinking from the tap means you are going to die. We use garrafones, not drinking fom the tap is not even seen as a problem here.
I smell an a ho
I remember when i was a kid in the 90's we went to spend a summer with my grandparents in Mexico and i was sick the entire time from the water. All i remmeber is constant vomiting and diarrhea and going to a doctor who didn't do shit. It was water that was supposedly purified because it came in these giant jugs. The only plus was that i was an overweight kid when i first got there and came back to the US super skinny .
Just angering. Water is not a subject that should be debated. We need it to live. No one in this world should live like this, doubting taking a sip of water on a daily basis. How heartless. Truly.
That doctor is educated and cute:) By the way, UV light should not be watched without protective eye glasses. It's so sad that they are making safe drink water but damaging their eyes...
Stop buying Coca-cola is a good starting point.
This will be over soon. AMLO will stop this. He loves Chiapas. Con el Pueblo Todo! sin el Pueblo Nada !!
I hope so. But I fear that AMLO will be the same as the rest as soon as he is in office. I'm keeping my fingers crossed and voting for him.
Dude. San Cristóbal is not a village. San Cristóbal is a city and you depicted it as a village in XIX century. By the way it's not coke the owner. It's FEMSA, which is Mexican. And if in the town there's no water it's because There is no infrastructure. I'm most villages they don't want to change things. And last, we like coke. Sue us.
The amount of water in the rivers. In sept in Mexico we had a major earthquake. In Chiapas it dried a lot of rivers. Even waterfalls.
Mexico has is so good that even me as an American would leave it all behind to get a small apt in Cancun and stay there happy for the rest of my life.. by far the most upfront and charismatic people ever and the food is just heaven..
0:53 Love this moment
Respect to the not for profit for helping them clean the water at the end there. Yet another example of the immoral implications of human greed. With any luck if mankind survives another hundred years, our descendants will be amazed at the lack of empathy from our system.
that's exactly what I don't get. they're seems to be happy with short term solution that they came up with.
Wow Coca-Cola has magical powers in their prayers I always thought it was just Coke interesting the similarities
That nutritionals has no idea what she's saying eggs and meat are literally the most nutritious meals on earth🤣
No she said rice and sope like carbs not eggs and meat I wonder if the translation was intentional
No she said rice and sope like carbs not eggs and meat I wonder if the translation was intentional
*They should replace Coke with Gatorade*
So in these impoverished areas, there’s no education, no government water distribution. Coca Cola is cheaper, so therefore it’s Coca Cola’s fault for these people not having water? I’m all about corporate responsibility, but the Coca Cola company makes sugary drinks because they sell. It’s not their job to fill the traditional roles of government. Providing a framework to fulfill these basic human needs are one of the foundational reasons for establishing government. Even more damning to the coherence of this sloppy emotional piece, some of the families used as examples are living on family lands with dried up wells. That has nothing to do with Coca Cola or the Mexican government! Just because your grandfather drank clear water from that well doesn’t mean you can keep your family there and expect no problems.
I guess conservative ideologies don’t need to die yet. Maybe they just need a grown up revival, separate and apart from the amoral politicians that push them for personal gain.
The wells are connected to groundwater supplies that feed the same aquifer Coca Cola uses. By overusing the aquifer, it causes dangerous chemicals like arsenic to leach into the groundwater supply. A corporation has no excuse for exploiting resources. We don't live in colonial times anymore where European governments allowed companies to run rampant and take advantage of other nations. I agree, we do need a revival, but you need one in your heart too.
Yes it Coca Cola fault you dumb ass. But I blame Capitalism, the real drive for such companies to piss on everyone's back garden. Look what happened in Cochabamba. Easy to exploit a poor country or a country in debt. Corporations are vultures. Hope the oil runs out
But they broke decades ago their corporate responsibility at hidding the health issues caused by sugar when people were trying to figure out if certain diseases were provoked by fats or carbs.
You are a idiot. You buy your bottled water and don't understand. How about coca cola come take all the drinking water from your town.
@@rbe6963 moron imagine all those corporation disappear! Oh no car manufacturer its ok but not coca cola?now get back in your mother's cave and never come out red nazi comufuck
Dam makes you appreciate water
I'll never look at coke the same again. I drank2much cola n fell out2xs. E.r.4iv's. My ❤ breaks4them. Colorful dignity. Garb. Viva la mexico
10-12m lol! just drill deeper, most wells are 30m+ deep
God help these people.
*Boycott Coca-Cola!!!*
That why Cristiano Ronaldo refuse to drink CC because of this and health issues...
M drinking a gallon of water right now
Hi fellow people from social studies class, i assume your teachers sent you here as well？
I’ve never seen this kind of devotion to a soda. Even Mountain Dew consumers don’t think it’s a sacred
its not a devotion are you dumb? they have no water to spare
How much does big Corp need to take from countries. In Bangladesh western clothing companies are ruining the water for the villagers which includes drinking water, bathing water, even water for their crops with illegal dumping and now here in Mexico big Corp is taking the locals water WTF. Is money really worth more than human lives and more important our planet?!?!!!!!!!!!
Definitely won't have clean water with dirty buckets.
Why don't drink Coco Colo ??? Coco Colo much more delicious and healthy than Coca Cola
we spent 1.5 $ per 500 litres of water fir drinking ..but for bathing we used pond water......
Surprised Pepsi has not entered the chat yet..
Are you trying to tell me the "anonymous" ex-coca cola employee and Armando (17:15) aren't the same dude? Same framed glasses, same haircut, same voice?
Good job on the anonymity. :/
Must be the original recipe in glass bottles
But this is not coca cola fault. Water is still cheaper then Coke. Simple capitalism
Mexican coke is different than american coke just like mexican cocaine is different than american cocaine yes its the government fault its NAFTA too
Good job
What the hell happened to mushroom tea!?!
Brown Sugar Water, sponsor of the Olympics.
The coca cola gods,none others than the richest families in every city or small town ,you own a coca cola factory,you are millionaire.
1:20 La fuerza de la coca cola. 💪🤪🥤
Now show me more cartoons of dying Polar Bears so I can feel bad about too much water.
Man made global warming is a hoax
coca cola is a thousand time better tasting then pepsi
I thought the first part was a joke or a commercial for Coke.
Why would they blame Coca Cola for its water shortage?
-water wells drying up is normal
-lack of a plumbing infrastructure is the cause of all the problems because nobody wants to pay those sorta taxes they have to use the well
-blaming coke for contamination then zooming out to a lady cleaning clothes with laundry powder next to the well
-multiple companies use the same water
-diabetes problem is not caused by coke but the glucose level in many high saturated fat foods that they consume.
-6 to 1 ratio for water usage? That doesnt make any sense unless they account plastic bottle manufacturing. If that's the case even bottles of water does the same thing as well
France has a bottling coca cola factory and they are not dehydrated from the water
Damm, mexico. You just gonna take this?
The thing is that only affect that remote poor zones, in almost all Mexico we have nice water so they are just minorities. Talking about business Coca Cola gives us tons of money compared of those poor people, harsh but true
horrible translation,
I'm Mexican and I dont know WTF that lady was saying in the beginning lol
I would gues it's like if I sayed I'm chilean and didn't undestood the person who spoke mapudungun at the beggining.
You should learn about your people mijo. Obviously they are indigenous people.
This is the real life idiocrazy ... It's coke not Gatorade
If your government won't do anything about it then move to India, they have sewer water for y'all to enjoy with meals like they do each day. ;)
18:50 lol
Brawndo's got what plants crave!
damn. you get lack of water plus diabetes
Holy hell, time to pulla Thanos, ill go first!
Greed do not have limits , the culprit is currept politicians who sold the basic needs of its citizens, and the citizens who allow this to happen to them
I'm Mexican and I love coke.. but I know better and limit it to special occasions only.
Horrifying. Boycott Coca Cola and all it’s brands!!!!
this makes me really angry😤
Lol and mexicans fully supported it by being the largest coca cola consumers in the world.
in all fairness i went to Cancun Mexico for a few weeks on a spontaneous vacation and when i was there for about 17 days i spent roughly about $300 US dollars. i ate like a king and smoked shitty weed for dank prices. sodas are $0.35 cents or $0.50 cents. a pretty big bottle of water at any fake 7 seven eleven was $1 buck. mercado 28 like 3 min walk from my hotel had anything you wanted for cheap. go to Mexico and have fun and you won't even scratch the bank..
It’s not that it’s cheap there. A Mexican says go to Indonesia for a cheap vacation. An American says go to Mexico for a cheap vacation. It’s not that it’s cheap in Mexico. It’s that currently the dollar is valued at 20 times what a mx peso is valued. That same $1 for a water that you bought in Cancun isn’t that cheap for a Mexican person who lives there. If tomorrow suddenly Mexican peso reversed and it was $20 dollars for 1 peso you would say don’t go to Mexico because it’s expensive there. That is not the case. However if you generate enough income or become very wealthy it would be cheap for you to vacation anywhere
Rather biased. Sugary drinks in general are heavily consumed in Mexico of which Coke is just one. Even the "juice" in Mexico is mostly sugar water with little fruit content.
Coca cola.
Its what plants crave.
They must not feel too strongly about clean water since so many people are still supporting the company.
Good ol corporate capitalism. You can play anywhere so long as you have enough money