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.. INTERNATIONAL EDITION | WEDNESDAY, JULY 18, 2018 CRUISES SO UNCOOL THEY’RE COOL BACK PAGE | TRAVEL VICTORY IN SIGHT STAMPING OUT A BLINDING ILLNESS PAGE 5 | WORLD POTEMKIN VILLAGES SURREAL REAL ESTATE THAT FOOLS THE EYE PAGE 19 | CULTURE than two liters, or more than half a gal- lon, of soda a day. The effect on public health has been devastating. The mortality rate from di- abetes in Chiapas increased 30 percent between 2013 and 2016, and the disease is now the second-leading cause of death in the state after heart disease, claiming more than 3,000 lives every year. Maria del Carmen Abadía lives in one of Mexico’s rainiest regions, but she has running water only once every two days. When it does trickle from her tap, the water is so heavily chlorinated, she said, it’s undrinkable. Potable water is increasingly scarce in San Cristóbal de las Casas, a pictur- esque mountain city in the southeastern state of Chiapas where some neighbor- hoods have running water just a few times a week, and many households are forced to buy extra water from tanker trucks. So, many residents drink Coca-Cola, which is produced by a local bottling plant, can be easier to find than bottled water and is almost as cheap. In a country that is among the world’s top consumers of sugary drinks, Chia- pas is a champion: Residents of San Cristóbal and the lush highlands that en- velop the city drink on average more “Soft drinks have always been more available than water,” said Ms. Abadía, 35, a security guard who has struggled with obesity and diabetes. Vicente Vaqueiros, 33, a doctor at the clinic in San Juan Chamula, a nearby farming town, said health care workers were struggling to deal with the surge in diabetes. “When I was a kid and used to come here, Chamula was isolated and didn’t have access to processed food,” he said. “Now, you see the kids drinking Coke and not water. Right now, diabetes is hit- ting the adults, but it’s going to be the kids next. It’s going to overwhelm us.” Buffeted by the dual crises of the dia- betes epidemic and the chronic water shortage, residents of San Cristóbal have identified what they believe is the singular culprit: the hulking Coca-Cola factory on the edge of the city. The plant has permits to extract more than 300,000 gallons of water a day as part of a decades-old deal with the fed- eral government that critics say is overly favorable to the plant’s owners. Public ire has been boiling over. In April 2017, masked protesters marched on the factory holding crosses that read “Coca-Cola kills us” and demanding that the government shut the plant down. “When you see that institutions aren’t providing something as basic as water and sanitation, but you have this com- pany with secure access to one of the best water sources, of course it gives you a shock,” said Fermin Reygadas, the director of Cántaro Azul, an organiza- tion that provides clean water. Coca-Cola executives and some out- side experts say the company has been unfairly maligned for the water short- MEXICO, PAGE 3 Soda everywhere. Diabetes, too. Maria del Carmen Abadía, left, has diabetes and said she blames herself for drinking so much soda. “Soft drinks have always been more available than water,” she said. ADRIANA ZEHBRAUSKAS FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES SAN CRISTÓBAL DE LAS CASAS, MEXICO The disease is rampant in a Mexican city that drinks a lot of Coca-Cola BY OSCAR LOPEZ AND ANDREW JACOBS From Pablo Picasso to David Hockney and from Jean Cocteau to Marc Chagall, celebrated painters and visual artists have worked their magic on the theatri- cal stage, including operas. This summer, some of Germany’s most noted artists are lending their tal- ents to two high-profile productions at prestigious music festivals. In late June, Georg Baselitz furnished somber and mournful sets for Pierre Audi’s produc- tion of “Parsifal” at the Munich Opera Festival. Meanwhile, in Bayreuth, the husband-and-wife artist duo Neo Rauch and Rosa Loy are working on the new “Lohengrin” overseen by the American director Yuval Sharon, which is set to open the annual Wagner Festival on July 25. While it may be coincidental that two “painterly” Wagner productions are go- ing up within a month — and 140 miles — of each other, these are not isolated oc- currences. More and more, artists from outside disciplines are being coaxed to opera, perhaps as a way to keep the art form vital and contemporary. Last year’s Salzburg Festival fea- tured new productions from the artist William Kentridge and the Iranian film and video artist Shirin Neshat. The Ger- man enfant terrible Jonathan Meese, fired from directing Bayreuth’s “Parsi- fal” in 2016, recently staged his irrever- ent, B-movie rewrite of that work in Vi- enna and Berlin under the name “Mond- parsifal.” Further back, the American video artist Bill Viola designed a now- legendary production of “Tristan und Isolde” for the director Peter Sellars in 2005. “Working together with artists is a great love of mine, and I think the opera needs them,” Mr. Audi, 60, said during a ARTISTS, PAGE 2 Hearing Wagner in a new hue Pablo Picasso’s curtain design for the 1917 production of Erik Satie’s ballet “Parade.” Celebrated artists have long been tapped to produce stunning visuals for the stage. DOMENICO STINELLIS/ASSOCIATED PRESS MUNICH German visual artists are lending their talents to high-profile productions BY A.J. GOLDMANN The New York Times publishes opinion from a wide range of perspectives in hopes of promoting constructive debate about consequential questions. Last week, the American public saw for the first time detailed, specific evidence that President Vladimir V. Putin’s mili- tary commanders in Russia were en- gaged in a day-to-day, highly sophis- ticated effort to manipulate the 2016 election. But on Monday, standing next to Mr. Putin, President Trump not only avoided all mention of the Justice De- partment’s indictment of 12 Russian mil- itary intelligence officers, but he also questioned the very conclusion that Russia was behind the hacking. Instead, Mr. Trump raised a series of largely irrelevant conspiracy theories, none of which were directly related to evidence of Russian hacking activity. He returned to questions of why the Federal Bureau of Investigation never took custody of a Democratic National Committee computer server. He asked what happened to Imran Awan, a Pakistani-born Capitol Hill aide, who pleaded guilty this month to unre- lated fraud charges after becoming a cause célèbre for conservatives who questioned whether he was linked to the committee’s hacking. (A July 3 plea agreement found no evidence that Mr. Awan illegally handled congressional computer systems.) And Mr. Trump demanded to know why thousands of Hillary Clinton’s emails had disappeared from her per- sonal server, a question apparently un- related to Russia’s activities. It was a smoke-and-mirrors effort, several American intelligence officials said later Monday. While Mr. Trump’s supporters repeatedly return to the question of the Democratic National Committee’s reluctance to turn over its server, which still sits in the committee’s basement, investigators familiar with the intelligence in the case said the hard- ware itself is of little investigative value. How Democratic National Committee emails on the server made their way into communications channels and net- works used by the G.R.U., Mr. Putin’s ag- gressive military intelligence unit, is the crux of the investigation; those emails were always supposed to be stored in the party committee’s server. Also cru- cial to the investigation is the question of who ordered that they be made public at critical moments in the 2016 campaign. The Russian president, for his part, was more subtle. TRUMP, PAGE 4 President Donald Trump with President Vladimir V. Putin in Helsinki, Finland. Mr. Trump had been briefed on the roles of Russian military commanders in publishing stolen emails. DOUG MILLS/THE NEW YORK TIMES In the face of evidence, Trump sees conspiracy NEWS ANALYSIS With Putin at his side, president questions U.S. findings on Russia hacking BY DAVID E. SANGER No matter how low your expectations for the summit between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin on Monday, it was hard not to be staggered by the Ameri- can president’s slavish and toadying performance. On Friday, the Justice Department indicted 12 members of Russia’s mili- tary intelligence service for a criminal conspiracy to interfere with the 2016 election and hurt Hillary Clinton’s campaign. The same day, Trump’s director of national intelligence, Dan Coats, gave a speech about America’s vulnerability to cyberattacks, particu- larly from Russia. “I’m here to say, the warning lights are blinking red again,” he said, comparing the threat to the one that preceded Sept. 11. But standing beside Putin in Hel- sinki on Monday, Trump sided with the Russian presi- dent against Ameri- can intelligence agencies while spew- ing lies and conspir- acy theories. “He just said it’s not Russia,” he said of Putin’s denials. “I will say this. I don’t see any reason why it would be.” Continuing in a free- associative fugue, he asked, “What happened to the servers of the Paki- stani gentleman that worked on the D.N.C.?” referring to a debunked right- wing claim about a former Democratic I.T. staffer. “What happened to Hillary Clinton’s emails? Thirty-three thou- sand emails gone, just gone. I think in Russia they wouldn’t be gone so easi- ly.” Perhaps the most sinister part of the news conference was Trump’s seeming openness to a deal in which F.B.I. investigators could question people in Russia in exchange for letting Rus- sians question Putin critics in America. Putin referred specifically to associ- ates of his arch-nemesis Bill Browder, a businessman (and British citizen) who has succeeded in getting seven countries, including the United States, to pass laws punishing Russian oli- garchs suspected of corruption. (The Russians who met with members of the Trump campaign at Trump Tower in June 2016 wanted to discuss this law, the Magnitsky Act.) “I’ve known for a long time that More proof he’s simply a Putin lackey OPINION Maybe the president is exactly as compromised as he looks. GOLDBERG, PAGE 8 Michelle Goldberg DISDAIN FOR U.S.; PRAISE FOR ADVERSARY The accepted conventions of how a president should conduct himself abroad were shredded. PAGE 4 Issue Number No. 42,096 Andorra € 3.70 Antilles € 4.00 Austria € 3.50 Bahrain BD 1.40 Belgium € 3.50 Bos. & Herz. 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INTERNATIONAL EDITION | WEDNESDAY, JULY 18, 2018
CRUISESSO UNCOOLTHEY’RE COOLBACK PAGE | TRAVEL
VICTORY IN SIGHTSTAMPING OUT ABLINDING ILLNESSPAGE 5 | WORLD
POTEMKIN VILLAGESSURREAL REAL ESTATETHAT FOOLS THE EYEPAGE 19 | CULTURE
than two liters, or more than half a gal-lon, of soda a day.
The effect on public health has beendevastating. The mortality rate from di-abetes in Chiapas increased 30 percentbetween 2013 and 2016, and the diseaseis now the second-leading cause of deathin the state after heart disease, claimingmore than 3,000 lives every year.
Maria del Carmen Abadía lives in one ofMexico’s rainiest regions, but she hasrunning water only once every twodays. When it does trickle from her tap,the water is so heavily chlorinated, shesaid, it’s undrinkable.
Potable water is increasingly scarcein San Cristóbal de las Casas, a pictur-esque mountain city in the southeasternstate of Chiapas where some neighbor-hoods have running water just a fewtimes a week, and many households areforced to buy extra water from tankertrucks.
So, many residents drink Coca-Cola,which is produced by a local bottlingplant, can be easier to find than bottledwater and is almost as cheap.
In a country that is among the world’stop consumers of sugary drinks, Chia-pas is a champion: Residents of SanCristóbal and the lush highlands that en-velop the city drink on average more
“Soft drinks have always been moreavailable than water,” said Ms. Abadía,35, a security guard who has struggledwith obesity and diabetes.
Vicente Vaqueiros, 33, a doctor at theclinic in San Juan Chamula, a nearbyfarming town, said health care workerswere struggling to deal with the surge indiabetes.
“When I was a kid and used to comehere, Chamula was isolated and didn’thave access to processed food,” he said.“Now, you see the kids drinking Cokeand not water. Right now, diabetes is hit-ting the adults, but it’s going to be thekids next. It’s going to overwhelm us.”
Buffeted by the dual crises of the dia-betes epidemic and the chronic watershortage, residents of San Cristóbalhave identified what they believe is thesingular culprit: the hulking Coca-Colafactory on the edge of the city.
The plant has permits to extract morethan 300,000 gallons of water a day aspart of a decades-old deal with the fed-eral government that critics say isoverly favorable to the plant’s owners.
Public ire has been boiling over. InApril 2017, masked protesters marchedon the factory holding crosses that read“Coca-Cola kills us” and demanding thatthe government shut the plant down.
“When you see that institutions aren’tproviding something as basic as waterand sanitation, but you have this com-pany with secure access to one of thebest water sources, of course it givesyou a shock,” said Fermin Reygadas, thedirector of Cántaro Azul, an organiza-tion that provides clean water.
Coca-Cola executives and some out-side experts say the company has beenunfairly maligned for the water short-MEXICO, PAGE 3
Soda everywhere. Diabetes, too.
Maria del Carmen Abadía, left, has diabetes and said she blames herself for drinking somuch soda. “Soft drinks have always been more available than water,” she said.
ADRIANA ZEHBRAUSKAS FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
SAN CRISTÓBAL DE LAS CASAS,MEXICO
The disease is rampantin a Mexican city that drinks a lot of Coca-Cola
BY OSCAR LOPEZAND ANDREW JACOBS
From Pablo Picasso to David Hockneyand from Jean Cocteau to Marc Chagall,celebrated painters and visual artistshave worked their magic on the theatri-cal stage, including operas.
This summer, some of Germany’smost noted artists are lending their tal-ents to two high-profile productions atprestigious music festivals. In late June,Georg Baselitz furnished somber andmournful sets for Pierre Audi’s produc-tion of “Parsifal” at the Munich OperaFestival. Meanwhile, in Bayreuth, thehusband-and-wife artist duo Neo Rauchand Rosa Loy are working on the new“Lohengrin” overseen by the Americandirector Yuval Sharon, which is set to
open the annual Wagner Festival onJuly 25.
While it may be coincidental that two“painterly” Wagner productions are go-ing up within a month — and 140 miles —of each other, these are not isolated oc-currences. More and more, artists fromoutside disciplines are being coaxed toopera, perhaps as a way to keep the artform vital and contemporary.
Last year’s Salzburg Festival fea-tured new productions from the artistWilliam Kentridge and the Iranian filmand video artist Shirin Neshat. The Ger-man enfant terrible Jonathan Meese,fired from directing Bayreuth’s “Parsi-fal” in 2016, recently staged his irrever-ent, B-movie rewrite of that work in Vi-enna and Berlin under the name “Mond-parsifal.” Further back, the Americanvideo artist Bill Viola designed a now-legendary production of “Tristan undIsolde” for the director Peter Sellars in2005.
“Working together with artists is agreat love of mine, and I think the operaneeds them,” Mr. Audi, 60, said during a ARTISTS, PAGE 2
Hearing Wagner in a new hue
Pablo Picasso’s curtain design for the 1917 production of Erik Satie’s ballet “Parade.”Celebrated artists have long been tapped to produce stunning visuals for the stage.
DOMENICO STINELLIS/ASSOCIATED PRESS
MUNICH
German visual artists are lending their talents to high-profile productions
BY A.J. GOLDMANN
The New York Times publishes opinionfrom a wide range of perspectives inhopes of promoting constructive debateabout consequential questions.
Last week, the American public saw forthe first time detailed, specific evidencethat President Vladimir V. Putin’s mili-tary commanders in Russia were en-gaged in a day-to-day, highly sophis-ticated effort to manipulate the 2016election.
But on Monday, standing next to Mr.Putin, President Trump not onlyavoided all mention of the Justice De-partment’s indictment of 12 Russian mil-itary intelligence officers, but he alsoquestioned the very conclusion thatRussia was behind the hacking.
Instead, Mr. Trump raised a series oflargely irrelevant conspiracy theories,none of which were directly related toevidence of Russian hacking activity.
He returned to questions of why theFederal Bureau of Investigation nevertook custody of a Democratic NationalCommittee computer server.
He asked what happened to ImranAwan, a Pakistani-born Capitol Hill aide,who pleaded guilty this month to unre-lated fraud charges after becoming acause célèbre for conservatives whoquestioned whether he was linked to thecommittee’s hacking. (A July 3 pleaagreement found no evidence that Mr.Awan illegally handled congressionalcomputer systems.)
And Mr. Trump demanded to knowwhy thousands of Hillary Clinton’semails had disappeared from her per-sonal server, a question apparently un-related to Russia’s activities.
It was a smoke-and-mirrors effort,several American intelligence officialssaid later Monday. While Mr. Trump’ssupporters repeatedly return to thequestion of the Democratic NationalCommittee’s reluctance to turn over itsserver, which still sits in the committee’sbasement, investigators familiar withthe intelligence in the case said the hard-ware itself is of little investigative value.
How Democratic National Committeeemails on the server made their wayinto communications channels and net-works used by the G.R.U., Mr. Putin’s ag-gressive military intelligence unit, is thecrux of the investigation; those emailswere always supposed to be stored inthe party committee’s server. Also cru-cial to the investigation is the question ofwho ordered that they be made public atcritical moments in the 2016 campaign.
The Russian president, for his part,was more subtle.TRUMP, PAGE 4
President Donald Trump with President Vladimir V. Putin in Helsinki, Finland. Mr. Trump had been briefed on the roles of Russian military commanders in publishing stolen emails.DOUG MILLS/THE NEW YORK TIMES
In the faceof evidence,Trump seesconspiracyNEWS ANALYSIS
With Putin at his side, president questions U.S.findings on Russia hacking
BY DAVID E. SANGER
No matter how low your expectationsfor the summit between Donald Trumpand Vladimir Putin on Monday, it washard not to be staggered by the Ameri-can president’s slavish and toadyingperformance.
On Friday, the Justice Departmentindicted 12 members of Russia’s mili-tary intelligence service for a criminalconspiracy to interfere with the 2016election and hurt Hillary Clinton’scampaign. The same day, Trump’sdirector of national intelligence, DanCoats, gave a speech about America’svulnerability to cyberattacks, particu-larly from Russia. “I’m here to say, thewarning lights are blinking red again,”he said, comparing the threat to theone that preceded Sept. 11.
But standingbeside Putin in Hel-sinki on Monday,Trump sided withthe Russian presi-dent against Ameri-can intelligenceagencies while spew-ing lies and conspir-
acy theories. “He just said it’s notRussia,” he said of Putin’s denials. “Iwill say this. I don’t see any reasonwhy it would be.” Continuing in a free-associative fugue, he asked, “Whathappened to the servers of the Paki-stani gentleman that worked on theD.N.C.?” referring to a debunked right-wing claim about a former DemocraticI.T. staffer. “What happened to HillaryClinton’s emails? Thirty-three thou-sand emails gone, just gone. I think inRussia they wouldn’t be gone so easi-ly.”
Perhaps the most sinister part of thenews conference was Trump’s seemingopenness to a deal in which F.B.I.investigators could question people inRussia in exchange for letting Rus-sians question Putin critics in America.Putin referred specifically to associ-ates of his arch-nemesis Bill Browder,a businessman (and British citizen)who has succeeded in getting sevencountries, including the United States,to pass laws punishing Russian oli-garchs suspected of corruption. (TheRussians who met with members ofthe Trump campaign at Trump Towerin June 2016 wanted to discuss this law,the Magnitsky Act.)
“I’ve known for a long time that
More proofhe’s simply aPutin lackey
OPINION
Maybe thepresident isexactly ascompromisedas he looks.
GOLDBERG, PAGE 8
Michelle Goldberg
DISDAIN FOR U.S.; PRAISE FOR ADVERSARYThe accepted conventions of how apresident should conduct himselfabroad were shredded. PAGE 4
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