{"id":74130,"date":"2020-01-26T20:32:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-25T20:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/english-mexicali-resiste-fights-for-water-rights-against-constellation-brands-compromising-quality-of-life-in-baja-california\/"},"modified":"2020-01-26T21:36:01","modified_gmt":"2020-01-27T01:36:01","slug":"mexicali-resiste-lucha-por-el-derecho-al-agua-y-contra-constellation-brands-marca-que-pone-en-riesgo-la-calidad-de-vida-en-baja-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/mexicali-resiste-lucha-por-el-derecho-al-agua-y-contra-constellation-brands-marca-que-pone-en-riesgo-la-calidad-de-vida-en-baja-california\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Mexicali Resiste&#8221; Fights For Water Rights Against Constellation Brands Compromising Quality Of Life In Baja, California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"><![CDATA[\n\/* Style Definitions *\/\nspan.prnews_span\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\na.prnews_a\n{\ncolor:blue;\n}\nli.prnews_li\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\np.prnews_p\n{\nfont-size:0.62em;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\nmargin:0in;\n}\n.prngen2{\nBORDER-TOP:1pt; BORDER-RIGHT:1pt; VERTICAL-ALIGN: BOTTOM; BORDER-BOTTOM:1pt; PADDING-LEFT:0.50em; BORDER-LEFT:1pt; PADDING-RIGHT:0.50em\n}\n.prntblns{\nBORDER-TOP: 1pt; BORDER-RIGHT: 1pt; BORDER-COLLAPSE: collapse; BORDER-BOTTOM: 1pt; BORDER-LEFT: 1pt\n}\n]]><\/style>\n<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">MEXICALI, Mexico<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">Jan. 25, 2020<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=2702660-1&amp;h=2168881576&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.alcoholjustice.org%2F&amp;a=Alcohol+Justice\" rel=\"nofollow\">Alcohol Justice<\/a> is reporting that\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=2702660-1&amp;h=3161445948&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fmexicaliresiste.org%2Fwp%2F&amp;a=Mexicali+Resiste\" rel=\"nofollow\">Mexicali Resiste<\/a> and other allies and partner activists will march in protest of Constellation Brands at the Vicente Guerrero Monument.<\/p>\n<div id=\"prni_dvprnejpgdac1left\" style=\"WIDTH: 100%; TEXT-ALIGN: left\" dir=\"ltr\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"prnejpgdac1left\" title=\"Alcohol Justice logo.\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Alcohol Justice logo.\" align=\"middle\" imagelabel=\"General\" src=\"https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/147418\/alcohol_justice_logo.jpg\"\/><\/div>\n<p><b>WHAT: <\/b>A march will take place to protest the factory of U.S Alcohol Corporation, Constellation Brands. Mexicali Resiste has organized this march to defend common welfare of water as a natural resource. <i>&#8220;We do not consider it is just that a corrupt corporation #ConstellationBrands is given preference over the needs of the citizens of <span class=\"xn-location\">Baja California<\/span>: <span class=\"xn-location\">Tijuana<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-location\">Ensenada<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-location\">Tecate<\/span> and <span class=\"xn-location\">Rosarito<\/span>. Currently these cities go weeks without water or have water rationed. If we don&#8217;t do anything about this, this will also happen in <span class=\"xn-location\">Mexicali<\/span>. If there is a surplus of water, as the governor maintains, why is there such a scarcity in Baja California Cities?&#8221; \u00a0<\/i><b>#BoycottConstellationBrands\u00a0 <\/b><i>&#8220;This is a prime example of Big Alcohol putting profits over people, of exploiting a vulnerable population for corporate profit and shareholder value,&#8221; <\/i>stated <span class=\"xn-person\">Mayra Jimenez<\/span>, Advocacy Manager at Alcohol Justice.<i> &#8220;The indigenous people are literally dying of thirst and all Constellation cares about is stealing their water, then making and selling beer. It is despicable.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>WHEN: <\/b><span class=\"xn-chron\">Sunday, January 26, 2020<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">11 A.M.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p><b>WHERE: Vicente Guerrero Monument, <\/b>Boulevard Adolfo L\u00f3pez Mateos, Industrial, 21010 Mexicali, B.C., <span class=\"xn-location\">Mexico<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>WHO: <\/b><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=2702660-1&amp;h=2420776326&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fmexicaliresiste.org%2Fwp%2F&amp;a=Mexicali+Resiste%2C\" rel=\"nofollow\">Mexicali Resiste,<\/a> allies and partner activists.<\/p>\n<p><b>WHY: <\/b>Since <span class=\"xn-chron\">January 2017<\/span>, Mexicali Resiste has maintained a strong opposition to the Constellation Brands factory that would consume 20 million cubic meters of water annually from the Valley of <span class=\"xn-location\">Mexicali<\/span>. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=2702660-1&amp;h=3161445948&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fmexicaliresiste.org%2Fwp%2F&amp;a=Mexicali+Resiste\" rel=\"nofollow\">Mexicali Resiste<\/a>\u00a0has not stopped protesting against this corporation establishing their factory in a desert region that has an over-exploited aquifer that is fed by the Colorado River that suffers serious water shortages in serious drought issues in <span class=\"xn-location\">Tijuana<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-location\">Tecate<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-location\">Rosarito<\/span> and <span class=\"xn-location\">Ensenada<\/span>. <b><b>#BoycottConstellationBrands<\/b> #FueraConstellationBrands @MexicaliResiste @AlcoholJustice<\/b> <\/p>\n<div>\n<table id=\"convertedTable8657\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"1\" class=\"prntblns\">\n<tr>\n<td class=\"prngen2\">\n<p class=\"prnews_p\"><span class=\"prnews_span\"><b>Contact:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td class=\"prngen2\">\n<p class=\"prnews_p\"><span class=\"prnews_span\">Mayra Jimenez\u00a0323 683-4687<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td class=\"prngen2\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"prngen2\"><\/td>\n<td class=\"prngen2\">\n<p class=\"prnews_p\"><span class=\"prnews_span\">Michael Scippa 415 548-0492<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td class=\"prngen2\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p>Logo &#8211; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=2702660-1&amp;h=2517536492&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fmma.prnewswire.com%2Fmedia%2F147418%2Falcohol_justice_logo.jpg&amp;a=https%3A%2F%2Fmma.prnewswire.com%2Fmedia%2F147418%2Falcohol_justice_logo.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/147418\/alcohol_justice_logo.jpg<\/a><\/p>\n<p\/>\n<p\/>\n<p>SOURCE  Alcohol Justice<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">MEXICALI, Mexico<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">Jan. 25, 2020<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=2702660-1&amp;h=2168881576&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.alcoholjustice.org%2F&amp;a=Alcohol+Justice\" rel=\"nofollow\">Alcohol Justice<\/a> is reporting that\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=2702660-1&amp;h=3161445948&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fmexicaliresiste.org%2Fwp%2F&amp;a=Mexicali+Resiste\" rel=\"nofollow\">Mexicali Resiste<\/a> and other allies&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":74131,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gobierno-y-politica"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}