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Soft drinks in Mexico 墨西哥软饮料 Fizzing with rage 嘶嘶愤怒 A once-omnipotent industry fights what may be alosing battle 一个曾经无所不能的行业的一场必败之仗 LA MANSION steakhouse inside Mexico s lower house of Congress has become theheadquarters of a lobbying effort the likes of which congressmen say they have never seenbefore. 墨西哥国会下议院LA大厦内的牛排餐厅已成为游说广场，国会议员们说他们以前从未见过。 There is so much wining and dining that one lawmaker, proposing a bill on October 15th toregulate the lobbyists, claimed he was talking to a half-empty floor because his colleagueswere too busy being schmoozed at La Mansion. 这里有这么多的美酒和美食，一个国会议员于10月15日提出了一项法案以规范游说，因为他的同事们忙于在La大厦闲聊，他抱怨说自己在对地板说话。 The lobbyists work mainly forsoft-drinks companies such as Coca-Cola, PepsiCo and their respective Mexican bottlersFemsa and Cultiba. 这些游说者主要为软饮料公司，如可口可乐、百事公司和他们在墨西哥的饮料瓶公司Femsa和Cultiba工作。 Their focus is a proposal currently under debate in Congress to slap an excise tax of onepeso on to the price of a litre of fizzy drinks. | 
