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Cancún’s Uber Battle

When Uber began operating illegally in lucrative tourist destination Quintana Roo, taxi union workers unleashed a violent campaign that temporarily shut down the company’s operations. But the taxi union’s affiliation with criminal networks reveals complicated dynamics around the state of union organizing in Mexico.

 

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1 All names used herein are pseudonyms to protect the subjects from any retaliation

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Brandon Hunter-Pazzara

Brandon Hunter-Pazzara is a Ph.D. candidate in Cultural Anthropology at Princeton University. His research examines the changing dynamics of labor union politics in Mexico’s tourism zones, focusing on the lives of unionized workers in these spaces.

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