The Mexico Double Take By Michael

Does this look familiar? A street corner in
La Paz, Mexico. This is just one store of
a chain.

Mexico and the U.S. are cultural and geographic cousins, if not siblings.* And with U.S. brands everywhere in Mexico, I think this relationship is much more apparent to the average Jose than to the average Joe. But where U.S. brands aren't, their influence is nonetheless pervasive.

The following pictures illustrate why.

--MR

* Having spent the past dozen years living on the East Coast of the U.S., and having spent the previous three decades living on the West Coast, it's clear to me that this relationship is much more apparent to a West Coaster.





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