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Walmart: Colombia mad about sweater with coking Santa Claus

2019-12-11T01:34:56.716Z


A Santa Claus in front of white powder, with an allusion to drugs from Colombia: A sweater with this motive prepares Walmart problems. The Colombian government demands reparation - also financially.



The Colombian government has reacted with little enthusiasm to an advertisement by the US retailer Walmart, in which a Santa Claus obviously handled cocaine.

The display for a sweater shows the upset Santa Claus with a straw in his hand in front of three spread out on a table in front of him white lines. Below is the saying "Let it snow".

Cocaine and Santa are not usually associated with each other. But Walmart is apologizing for selling sweaters Santa Claus with lines of cocaine in front of him and the phrase "Let It Snow" https://t.co/FMmGFlruEc

- ABC7 Eyewitness News (@ ABC7) December 9, 2019

On the Walmart website, the garment offered by a third-party company with clear references to cocaine was advertised: "Santa Claus enjoys the time when he can procure Colombian snow of the highest quality," it said.

The government in Bogotá demanded compensation from Walmart, a legal representative told a Colombian radio station on Tuesday. Depending on the number of people who have seen the advertisement on the Internet, the resulting damage for Colombia should be calculated.

Apparently the garment never lay in the shops

In addition, Walmart's country "requires a ten times the advertising campaign for this product to paint a good picture of Colombia." However, the country is actually considered the largest cocaine producer in the world. It was only in September that the Colombian navy secured a $ 8 million submarine submarine.

A Walmart spokeswoman said that the sweater offered on the Walmart website in Canada had been removed from the program. In any case, he was only available online through a third-party vendor and never got into the stores. The sweater does not represent "the values ​​of Walmart".

The sweater is therefore part of a series of deliberately obscene Christmas sweaters. Another example, show Santa Claus with bare bottom.

Source: spiegel

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