Mexico Orders McDonald’s to Clean Up Its Act on Napkins
MEXICO CITY — The Mexican government, responding to public criticism, has ordered the McDonald’s restaurant chain to stop using paper napkins carrying Mexico’s national symbol, an official spokesman was quoted as saying Wednesday.
Many Mexicans had complained that the national symbol was ending up in the garbage at the fast-food restaurants.
The symbol, an eagle eating a snake atop a cactus, appears on Mexico’s red, white and green national flag.
In a letter to the daily newspaper La Jornada on Wednesday, an Interior Ministry spokesman said the restaurant chain had been ordered to replace the napkins in line with Mexican laws on the symbol, the flag and the national anthem.
The spokesman said “appropriate sanctions” had been taken against McDonald’s but did not elaborate.
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