Puerto Vallarta and Mexico News

Puerto Vallarta and Mexico News

Indigenous groups in Mexico want Coke advertisment canned

It looks like many Coca-Cola ads with long-haired, do-gooder hipsters teaching the world to sing or sharing a Coke and a smile.

But the "Open Your Heart" holiday campaign by Coca-Cola Mexico is coming under fire as "faux philanthropy" and an insult to indigenous groups for its portrayal of a truckload of festive, fashion model-looking white people driving into the remote hills of Oaxaca hauling Coke and a Christmas tree as a service project.

The Alliance for Food . . .

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