LA Times Blogs: Richard Fausset. MEXICO CITY -- One of Mexico's largest retailers has been unwillingly dragged into the hullabaloo over just how dirty the nation's recent presidential election was, and now it's yelling "ya basta!" -- enough already -- and accusing the runner-up of promoting protests at its stores that have been marked by "aggressiveness and violence."
The retail giant Soriana, which operates more than 500 grocery stores, quickie marts and Wal-Mart-style megastores, became entangled in the country's impassioned postelectoral narrative soon after the July 1 vote. At that time reports surfaced that supporters of the victorious Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, were jamming the outlets' aisles in the hopes of redeeming prepaid Soriana gift cards that the PRI had allegedly given them. Read more.
The MexicoBlog of the Americas Program, a fiscally sponsored program of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), is written by Laura Carlsen. I monitor and analyze international press on Mexico, with a focus on security, immigration, human rights and social movements for peace and justice, from a feminist perspective. And sometimes I simply muse.
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