Chile Rellenos Contra Hot Dogs

This humorous scene of a pitched street battle belies its seriousness as a commentary on the 2002 attempt by McDonald’s to put a restaurant in Oaxaca’s Zocalo, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The artist Francisco Toledo (represented in the AMAM’s collection) led the successful concerted opposition. In the print’s background can be seen the city’s 18th-century aqueduct, which brings water from the pueblo of San Felipe del Agua in the mountains to the north.