Teotihuacan, Mexico
A group of Mexican shopkeepers is trying to stop Wal-Mart from building an outlet near the pyramids of the sun and moon, in the ancient Aztec city of Teotihuacan. Dozens of protesters wielding machetes tried unsuccessfully to shut down the construction site last month. The group then began urging foreign tourists to boycott the popular 2,000-year-old ruins, saying that workers building the Wal-Mart-owned Bodega Aurrera store were destroying valuable artifacts. Government archaeologists said Wal-Mart had scrupulously preserved clay figures and other relics it had uncovered, and had even designed the store with an ancient-looking stone facade to help it blend in.
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