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🗓️ 22 August 2018

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Not many Presidents can say they got their start driving soda trucks around their country. Mexico’s former President Vicente Fox can, though. We find out what role Coca-Cola played in his rise to power, and investigate Coke’s unprecedented domination in Mexico. PLUS: Customer Service takes on Ikea.

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0:00.0

We used to drink eight, ten, twelve, coaks a day.

0:06.2

You personally?

0:07.2

Yes.

0:08.2

Wow.

0:09.2

I did at my time.

0:10.2

This is Vicente Fox.

0:11.2

When I was young.

0:12.2

Yes, back in the 60s, right?

0:14.4

Back in the 60s, I joined Coca-Cola Company on 64.

0:19.2

When Vicente joined Coke in Mexico, the country was in the midst of a Cola war.

0:24.4

Coke was in the market first, in the Mexican market, way before Pepsi.

0:30.7

And was alone in the market by itself Coca-Cola for years, for decades.

0:37.1

Vicente was on the front lines.

0:38.9

He spent his days riding around in a Coca-Cola delivery truck, racing to beat the Pepsi guys.

0:44.5

So we would punch tires to Pepsi trucks, or we would take away the, it was only returnable

0:53.4

bottles then, take away the empty Pepsi bottles, take them out of the cooler, the refrigerator.

1:03.8

Very competitive, and the whole idea was to get that first.

1:07.6

They'd get the Pepsi drivers drunk on Tequila at a trucker bar if they had to.

1:12.0

Then Vicente and his crew would speed to small villages and fill up the coolers at mom

1:16.4

and pop shops.

1:18.0

And along the way, Coca-Cola became a part of life in Mexico, unlike in any other country.

1:23.6

It started to be used in religious ceremonies.

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