How Coca-Cola Is Killing Mexico

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Residents of one Mexican city drink over 2 liters of soft drinks per day. This has catastrophic health consequences for the population. How could it come to this? And what role does Coca-Cola play?

Thanks to Dr. Jaime Page Pliego for his valuable insights.

Key reporting on this topic:
Unreported World - Mexico’s deadly Coca-Cola addiction    • Mexico’s deadly Coca-Cola addiction | Unre...  
Journeyman Pictures - Coca-Cola's Corporate Takeover Of Mexico    • Coca-Cola's Corporate Takeover Of Mexico  
New York Times - In Town With Little Water, Coca-Cola Is Everywhere. So Is Diabetes. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/14/wo...

All our sources:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1E...

0:00 Intro
3:50 1. Why is the water scarce?
7:00 2. Why is everyone drinking Coke?
10:38 3. How does it affect the population?
12:48 4. How did it come to this point?
17:13 Own opinion

Music:

Artlist

Brianna Tam - Intrepid; Circularity
Max H. - Conflicts; Back Home
Yestalgia - Flat White (feat. Mantrick)
Maya Belsitzman & Matan Ephrat - The Day Before
Tilman Sillescu - Wait And See
Yehezkel Raz - Deep Blue Sea (Instrumental Version); Corals Under The Sun (Instrumental Version); Morning Sunbeams
Charlie Ryan - Oscillating Form
Francesco D'Andrea - With Some Malice; Mad At The Ballet
Ardie Son - Aftershocks; Convolutions; Interlude Fury
Annie Zhou - Inner Canyon
Tomas Novoa - Vuelta Al Sol (Instrumental Version)
Red City Hero - After
Ian Post - Yule
Roger Louis Harmon - Pizzicato In The Jungle
Alon Peretz - Asturias
Tom Goldstein - Mirrors
G-Yerro - Value
Raz Burg - Back To Silence
Stanley Gurvich - Free Radicals
Theatre Of Delays - Distant Worlds
Mogli The Iceburg - Ghost (Instrumental Version)

Epidemic Sound

Eoin Mantell - Wonky Wayne
Alan Carlson-Green - No Turning Back
Rippled Stone - Blissful

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