Mexico's retail, especially food, is being colonized by multinational chain stores.

In some cases, foreign companies bought Mexican supermarket and restaurant chains. I think they are nearly all foreign-owned. The banks, too. A decade ago I posted a joke about Ban-comer and Bananamex — nowadays, young Mexicans may not get the joke because those banks have been swalloped up by multinationals.

There is also in Mexico a Japanese retail store chain, Mikasa. Mexicans who see that name may think it is an intentionally misspelled version of "mi casa", my house. It is actually the name of a famous battleship used in the war with Russia in 1905, which was itself named after a mountain.

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The EPA has acknowledged that neonicotinoid pesticides endanger wildlife. Each of these pesticides is expected to harm over a thousand endangered species. (The precise number affected by each pesticide varies.)

The EPA should take quick action, especially since some of those species are important pollinators.

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