the new york times in an investigation into walmart in mexico and what they
found was
an incredible amount of corruption
an incredible amount aside disregard for the law in mexico
at in which is hard to believe um... but when you look at how widespread the
corruption is
open among wal-mart's uh... executives in mexico you'll just realized anemic
we have certain regulations here but it makes you realize that you know when it
comes to other countries
disregard for regulations don't care out off
so what i'm specifically talking about is awhile right that was built in two
thousand four
in a very specific area in mexico near ancient pyramids
now these pyramids are where you know referred to as the sun and the moon by
the ass tax and is considered a very historical area
and because of that
there were certain i'm still learning rules and regulations that prevented
walmart from building
near the pyramids but they decided no you know what we want to build a new
wal-mart store
one mile away from the pyramids on any was going to be built on held up in the
ad
pineda as
alfalfa field uh... and even though not pretend like what you just sit with
cap
irritability over raiders
alfalfa field yes
and again it was a one mile away from the ancient pyramids
um... but
officials in the area said now you can do that
for number of different reasons first of all the traffic congestion there is
already horrible we don't want ad working gestion
we don't want to shut down the local businesses there
you bring in a wal-mart those local businesses are gone and of course
another problem is if you build is big other lee wal-mart
citing you're gonna have a deterrent and charts are gonna wanna go and visit that
historic site and of course there's another problem out when it comes to
insure ruins um... anthropologists archaeologists say that you know there
are inch of ruins in the area that won't this new wal-mart was built and um... as
a result you know you you just don't wanna have that building there you want
to be able to have excavations there without worrying about this massive
superstore where people really really get their alfalfa
that's uh... that's a rather well there obviously a host of reasons why eight
they object with melhor market around this uh... obstacle
all right so uh... i was gonna first graphic the times examination reveals
that while mine to mexico
was not the reluctant victim of a corrupt culture that insisted on brian's
as the cost of doing business nor do they pay brides mili to speed up preteen
approvals
rather wal-mart to mexico was an aggressive and creative corrupt they're
offering large payoffs to get
what the law otherwise prohibited it used to bribes to subvert
democratic governance public votes open debates transparent procedures it used
brides to circumvent regulatory safeguards that protect mexican citizens
from unsafe construction
it use brides to outflanked rivals
so basically what they did is first of all d_d_i_ of political officials in the
area said no you guys cannot build this wal-mart
i was owning law say that it is prohibited
more walmart did is they went to uh... eight government publication that
basically takes the new zoning laws and publishes a and basically paid off those
uh... who work for the gazette
so when the gazette published a new zoning map
they made one change and the one change was that walmart would be able to build
their superstore on the outside of what it cost
so overall they paid about two hundred twenty one thousand dollars just to bill
about walmart
okay n
and a bride one one brother fifty two thousand up right and of course there
were several different brides dresses several different officials
when it comes to a historical site like that
often times that you have to do is you have to talk to you
this group of anthropologists
to make sure that they adding to do a full examination of the area to make
sure you're not building a structure
on top of an area were ancient ruins could exist
um... what what happened was
the anthropologist got a massive donation
and as a result they just basically saying yeah
now we know we are detect this site out and it's totally fine we checked it out
in nineteen eighty four
but albany times in the investigation
they looked at add you no doubt those documents that investigation in nineteen
eighty four and realize that it was on a completely different plot of land
so actually walmart's
excuses unity
him anyway get shit done in mexico
the upright
but as the quote you just read what the the archives
not like we got fica bribes in mexico what this is
wal-mart initiating the bride's make it happen and as you review for the article
there's a whole
huge pattern of wal-mart is that neil's of other bribes for three attorney forty
one thousand dollars they tried to build up sam's club which i was forget it
won't work
in mexico city's most densely populated neighborhood seven or sixty five
thousand dollars nine dr to build a fast refrigeration distribution center
environmentally flat fragile flood basin north in mexico city
i can't imagine that you can get these things bill
regularly
that you know e primakov cold war
because obviously the bribes
uh... they can absorb the loss of the bride would indicate that if they've
gone to a place
where there with their privacy written that it would cost them a lot more they
would advocate their work for peace there's not really wanted
you know wal-mart mix of money that they gotta go about doing the right way
everybody's got to go back to a place i was going to see a country c company so
incredibly flush with cash for circumventing rules to save the couple
bucks yap while you know in this particular right now there are several
different moments that were built in mexico corruption was involved according
to new york times
with many of them
however with the specific wal-mart that was built near the pyramids
uh... they weren't a straight-out told no you we're not gonna lie did he do it
but as soon as they were willing to put out
takes the money out and pay two hundred around two hundred thousand dollars for
a and all the setting of the rules changed a little bit and of course they
were mass protests in in in mexico because of this
what amazes me is
warranted an internal investigation okay so
executives in the
started hearing about this and britain they started to pretend like all my god
what's going on we don't know what's going on mexico why we do our own
internal investigation and just like
i pay your two later they decided to squash the investigation
enjoy investigations cracked me up especially when it comes to companies
like wal-mart cuz they mean nothing
i like this one here mister cicero trim sharp featured and recalled how missus
greatest alfalfa field which i love
that jumped up as wal-mart executives scoured aerial photographs of tailgate
lock on
don't pretend you're not impressed
by putting one of wall boards bodega herrera supermarkets tells me that if
they would create a choke point that would effectively place town off limits
to competitors
that's the fact
they get their libraries you go to walmart we're not say give bill a
wal-mart mexico
partnership with the law one
what bothers me is that they're like they find this area they're not allowed
to build a wal-mart
directly after his with which he sells perfect that
they don't have the capability to say
but we can't deal with the cycle the switch alcoholic competition equipped
with what we've got a lot of folklore
rhetorical photographs
follow the rules