#LadyChiles: Chili Theft Spurs Lively Conversation About Classism in Mexico Manuel Rueda - Fusion
go to original September 1, 2014

MEXICO CITY - It took the theft of a chili, and an angry housewife, to get Mexicans talking about how the rich treat the poor in Mexico. Check out this video which has gone viral on social media.



Adriana Rodriguez, or “#LadyChiles” as she is now known on Twitter, is a well-to-do woman from Cancun who fired her maid last week after catching her in the act of a petty theft: stealing a 25 ingredient nogada sauce-drenched chili, which was apparently reserved only for consumption at the Rodriguez home.

The housewife posted a video on Facebook in which she grills her maid for putting the chili in a tupperware container and attempting to take it home to her kid.

“Isn’t it an abuse, when I am giving you what you want to eat here, for you to lie to me and steal from me?” Rodriguez tells her maid, who tries to apologize for taking the stuffed chili.

“We give you enough to eat here, you eat the same things that we eat here…I’m not going to feed your whole family,” Rodriguez says to the maid, who isn't identified.

Rodriguez shared the video on Facebook, indignant over what the maid “had done” to her. But the video backfired against her as it went viral, garnering thousands of views on YouTube. Hordes of Twitter users accused Rodriguez of humiliating her maid in a classist, classless manner.

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