Co.Design: business + innovation + design: As popular as Mexican bottles of Coke among certain purists are Mexican bottle rockets--crown king of fireworks and hailing from Tultepec, about an hour outside of Mexico City. Tultepec, otherwise not known for its look-at-me displays, is the hub of the Mexican pyrotechnics industry, producing more than 80 percent of the country’s fireworks and employing an estimated 80 percent of the town’s population.
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Something that really stuck out to me in the article was the fact that the city's patron saint is the saint of fireworks, firemen, hospitals, and alcoholics. All four of these create the problem and solution of a potential firey disaster. Alcoholics + fireworks = firemen + hospitals. I had no idea there was a patron saint for these things, especially one that represents all four. At least it fits the city and its industry.
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