A daily din that keeps Mexico City humming
by Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times
Sep 05, 2018
3 minutes
MEXICO CITY - The press corps waited in tense silence inside the Mexican presidential palace. It was 2016, a few months before Donald Trump would be elected president, and the then-Republican nominee was about to appear at a highly anticipated news conference alongside Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto.
The cameras were rolling and the room hushed when, suddenly, a familiar refrain rang out: "Ricos tamales Oaxaquenos!"
It was somebody's cellphone ringtone - and the same recording blasted from loudspeakers every evening on Mexico City's ubiquitous
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