With the success of, "The King" and the square pants video, I'm sure Burger King didn't need to put out this faux pas...but they did. To advertise its new whopper, the "Texican," Burger King made an interesting commercial featuring a cowboy and a little person luchador, or wrestler popular in Mexico. The major problem is that the little luchador has a cape with the mexican flag, and a Mexican official saw this as a violation to their strict laws banning the use of the flag in certain contexts and additionally saw this as a potential misrepresentation of the image of Mexico.
The BK guys should have seen this coming.
Here's the AdAge article
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Yeah, BK really likes to push the envelope don't they?
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