Originally Posted by brassmonkey

The world's largest bottler of Coke shuttered its operations in a town in southwest Mexico on Friday. Coca-Cola Femsa said the shutdown was prompted by constant aggression from organized-crime groups. Attacks on big companies and multinationals have been rare in Mexico in the decade since the country ramped up its war on drugs and organized crime. Coca-Cola Femsa, the world's largest Coke bottler, said on Friday it was indefinitely shutting down operations in Ciudad Altamirano, a town at the northern edge of Mexico's Guerrero state, because of harassment from organized crime and a lack of response by authorities. "The measure was taken to put first the security of more than 160 workers who work ...