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McDonald’s goes belly up in Bolivia

December 11, 2012 | Filed under: Health,News,Rights | Posted by: True Activist

McDonald’s leaves Bolivia healthier forever!

After 14 years of presence in the country, and

despite all the existing campaigns and having a
network, the chain was forced to close the eight
restaurants that remained open in the three main
cities: La Paz, Cochabamba and Santa Cruz de la
Sierra.

It is a question of the first Latin-American

country that will remain without any McDonald’s,
and the first country in the world where the Subscribe by Email
company has to close because it persists in having
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their numbers in the red for over a decade.

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The impact for the creative and marketing managers has been so strong that a documentary was
filmed under the title “Why McDonald’s went broke in Bolivia,” where they try to somehow explain True Activist
the reasons that led Bolivians to still prefer pies to hamburgers.
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Cultural rejection

The documentary includes interviews with cooks, sociologists, nutritionists, educators, historians Follow us on Google+
and more, where there is a general agreement: the rejection is neither to the hamburgers nor to their
taste. The rejection is in the minds and mentality of Bolivians. Everything indicates that “fast food”
is literally the opposite of a Bolivian’s conception of how to prepare a meal.

In Bolivia, the food to be good requires, in addition to taste, care, and hygiene, a lot of preparation
time. This is how a consumer values the quality of what goes into the stomach, also by the amount of +3,937
time it took to make the meal. Fast food is not for these people, the Americans concluded.

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Richard Forbes
finally a country with sense, might be a good place to visit.
Reply · 122 · Like · June 14 at 12:03pm

Serg Vargas · Works at Championship Vinyl

nope Im from there, it sucks
Reply · 36 · Like · July 10 at 1:42pm

Andrés Alvarado
Que vergüenza Serg. Un hombre que no ama a su patria es un hombre que no amo ni a su
madre. Que vergüenza. Shame on you!!!!!!!!!!!
Reply · 28 · Like · July 10 at 3:11pm

William Pillow · Top Commenter · Associate Vice President of Operations at El Grupo

Anarquista de San Cristóbal
Serg...do you eat at McDonalds...??
Reply · 8· Like · July 10 at 10:35pm

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Psyndi Quinones · East Los Angeles College

I'm Mc lovin' it!!!! Yay for Bolivia!
Reply · 25 · Like · June 21 at 7:42pm

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Zhane Axiom Zield · Top Commenter · Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

think I just found a country I love mentally intolerant of unsavory Food.
Reply · 15 · Like · June 14 at 6:20pm

Jay Jay Backtobasics Taylor · Tauranga Intermediate School

It has finally happened!!!!! Took 14 years for the corporate heads to knock it off but it happened
haha.. Just goes to show how hungry they are for money! Hoping it would work just fucked them
for 14 years hahaha should call that corporate cult karma
Reply · 14 · Like · June 14 at 6:40pm

Zhane Axiom Zield · Top Commenter · Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

THE REVOLUTION IS UPON US BROTHER, Corporate karma is being delt every where i just
wish it was there was more HOSTILE TAKE OVERS In place Corporations need to feel the pain
Reply · 14 · Like · June 14 at 6:44pm

Jazmín Gutiérrez · Universidad Nacional Federico Villarreal

Sad to say, after spending 6 weeks in Bolivia, that there is a fried chicken shop every corner,
especially in La Paz and Cochabamba. They may don't eat Mc Yaqui but they do eat lot of local
versions of KFC.
Reply · 2· Like · September 13 at 9:54am

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Sheila Barker-Wallis · Loughborough Central

Well done Bolivia I hate MacDonalds the only good thing they make is a Milk Shake!
Reply · 11 · Like · June 17 at 10:53am

Sarah Neg · Classroom Teacher at Dane Court

And even that is full of chicken fat!
Reply · 10 · Like · June 17 at 11:47am

Anthony Lane · Cobequid Educational Centre

pure exlax lol
Reply · 4· Like · June 21 at 4:05pm

Kris Telech · Calgary, Alberta

hate to burst your bubble but the milkshake they make is pretty vile, nothing good in it.
Reply · 5· Like · June 21 at 5:08pm

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Grant Craythorne · God at I DONT WORK FOR ANYONE

I'm just chuffed they are kicking a corporation of American imperialism
Reply · 10 · Like · June 21 at 4:12pm

Alexandra Gigi Chan · HKU

I m from hk and I feel like bolivia people understand life.
Reply · 6· Like · July 10 at 10:16am

Kritharan Mohan · Smk taman ria jaya

Good news...Ms Alexandra
Reply · 2· Like · July 11 at 2:52am

Pearl Irigoyen · Miller-Motte Technical College

The true reason they hate fast food is because they hate anything from America. Bolivia is one of the leaders
in cancer death rate. I still have not heard of a Bolivian Native that didn't die of cancer. They barely eat any
vegetables. These articles are making it sound like Bolivians are sooo healthy. They hate fast food for the
wrong reasons: racism. Everyone should hate fast food because it's unhealthy. If you visit Bolivia do Not tell
them you're an American. I know how they react.
Reply · 5· Like · July 6 at 12:47pm

Andres Cuba
dude I am from bolivia and its not becouse we hate North Americans, its just becouse we eat
healthier here due to our natural way of life, we dont need fancy food or gmo food, we dont even

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try to eat that becouse its obious that the US is dying due to obesity so stfu specially if you dont
our country, besides all foreing people here is treated with respect its just you that believe you are
superior to others we treat all of you just as we treat any of us
Reply · 33 · Like · July 10 at 12:05pm

Diek Grobler · Animator/Creative Director at Fopspeen Moving Pictures

oh you poor Americans. Everybody hates you. it is not racism, but anti imperialism
Reply · 27 · Like · July 10 at 1:24pm

Dale McKinnon
According to the UN World Health rate of deaths by any type of cancer, Bolivians die at a rate of
86.1:100,000. Compare this to the UK at 137:100,000, the US at 123.8:100,000, Iceland at
119.4:100,000, and Australia at 118.4:100,000. Seems to me that Bolivians are considerably
healthier, Pearl. Not sure where you get your facts, except from a cognitive bias.
Reply · 38 · Like · July 10 at 1:57pm

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John O'Shea · Galway, Ireland

The rejection is in the minds and mentality of Bolivians.
Reply · 4· Like · June 14 at 12:01pm

Sharon Rubindecelis.Vespa · Universidad de Palermo

Im bolivian and this is not true, it was all because we have lots of fast local foods with lower price, i mean
HALF PRICE, we are a poor country, thats all. We dont have people to control this.. we cant even cure
Aftosa from our cows, hate activism with lies.
Reply · 21 · Like · September 12 at 8:10am

Mert Sağlam · Top Commenter · Akçaabat

exactly!
Reply · 2· Like · September 12 at 9:04am

John H Melo · Top Commenter · Instituto Tecnológico de Buenos Aires

Sharon, tell me about one country in Latin America where Mc Donalds doesn't have a strong
competition. In Colombia we have better fast food chain restaurants (El Corral for example,
similar prices, way better food) and a lot of cheaper places where you can eat hamburguers. In
spite of not having the best food, nor the best prices, Mc Donalds is opening more and more
restaurants. There are a lot of poor countries with a Mc Donalds in every corner, for the same
reason there are a lot of people without education but an iPhone in their pocket. The reason is
consumism. It is true that your country is probably the poorest in the region, but I rather believe
that the reason for this decision is dignity and traditions, not poverty.
Reply · 13 · Like · September 12 at 9:45am

Sharon Rubindecelis.Vespa · Universidad de Palermo

John H Melo ok i may have use the word, but that doesnt mean the activists can promote their
causes with lies. That is not right, you cant teach or wait to have credibility in a cause if u give
wrong information just to capture more followers, not with this topic or other.
Reply · 8· Like · September 12 at 11:27am

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147 Responses to McDonald’s goes belly up in Bolivia

10kpasubpilot
September 13, 2013 - 5:18 pm

Jamaica kicked them out first long ago…they just wouldn’t eat that rubbish when they have plenty of wholesome
good local food chains so McD’s just gave up and got out of there.
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fahrenheit451bookstore
September 13, 2013 - 9:57 pm

http://wp.me/p1lJ77-S4 Earth First News, People before Profits; Bolivia’s Evo Morales Attacks Malnutrition with
Incas’ Sacred Grain. Quinoa called “The Gold of the Incas”
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Mike Lazarus
September 14, 2013 - 6:37 am

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McDonalds left nearly 15 years ago… in 2002

But they still have Burger King, Subway, fried chicken chains and hot dog joints, not to mention Bolivian specific fast
food providers such as salteñerias, on every block of most Bolivian cities
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tristan cochrane
September 20, 2013 - 8:55 am

The speciality I noticed on a very brief trip to Bolivia was sprinkling chopped up hotdog on top of fast food as a kind
of garnish… I wouldn’t have said that modern Bolivia is extremely health conscious. I have the feeling it is more to do
with finances than health that Bolivian’s don’t eat McDonalds.
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