In this mural, the visual language of advertising is subverted to present a reflection on some of the social issues that are experienced in Mexico. On one of the walls, we can read “La Guerra del Yaqui y la huelga de Cananea” (The Yaqui War and the Cananea Strike), in reference to a historical event of the early twentieth century in which miners in Cananea, Sonora held a labor strike against a U.S. company to protest their precarious working conditions. This event was a pre- cursor for many other labor movements.

The piece also includes words in Nahuatl, which make references to water. This lays bare the problem of large companies privatizing this resource and creating water shortages despite the country’s wealth of aquifers.