4 Oaxaca Youths Attack McDonald’s
OAXACA, Mexico, Nov. 12 (AP) — Four youths wearing masks tossed gasoline bombs at a McDonald’s restaurant in the conflict-torn city of Oaxaca on Sunday, the police said.
The restaurant is near the university where leftist protesters set up their headquarters last month after the police drove them out of the city’s main plaza. They had occupied the plaza for five months in an effort to force the resignation of the Oaxaca governor.
On Sunday, security personnel put out the blaze, the police said. The restaurant was closed during the attack, and nobody was hurt, although there was some damage.
Protesters attacked a Burger King restaurant in the same mall with gasoline bombs last week. But leaders of the movement, known as the Oaxaca People’s Assembly, denied that their members were responsible for the attack on Sunday.
McDonald’s was at the center of a conflict here in 2002, when artists and community groups forced the chain to abandon plans to open a franchise in the picturesque colonial main square, saying it would hurt the city’s cultural identity.
Oaxaca’s current conflict started as a teachers’ strike for higher pay. It expanded into a fight to oust Gov. Ulises Ruiz, with the protesters seizing the city center, building barricades, burning buses and seizing radio stations to call for a revolution.
ArticleI thought this was interesting in light of our previous discussions about Jihad vs. McWorld...only this time in Mexico! What struck me most was that the Mexicans said that they did not want the McDonalds because it would affect their culture. This is true of the McWorld idea of globalization, but I wonder how long they will be able to keep McWorld from expanding into their own.
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