Using Tear Gas & Water Cannon, Tlaxcala State Police Disperse Farmers & Transporters Strike
The situation of FNRCM members in Tlaxcala is unknown. Meanwhile the state government announced that traffic has been restored on the roads.
The situation of FNRCM members in Tlaxcala is unknown. Meanwhile the state government announced that traffic has been restored on the roads.
Mexico City’s upcoming Citizen Consultation on Participatory Budgeting will be held on Sunday, May 3.
Driven by concerns over US crop dumping, monopoly profiteering, the decline of food sovereignty & insufficient state support, farmers have struck for the third in six months. Now transporters have joined.
Promoted by government agencies in Jalisco, Guadalajara, and Zapopan and featuring a morbid roster of misogynists, reactionaries & former boy band singer; the expensive two day event has drawn criticism.
Organizers considered the government’s has no interest in resolving the agricultural crisis, and balked at the demand that they not hold any demonstrations during this year’s World Cup.
Slave-like working conditions and numerous abuses persist; while the majority of workers lack employment contracts, wages, social security, and benefits.
Despite this multi-billion dollar business, the US Trade Representative continues to assert a series of non-tariff barriers prevent the free access of genetically modified corn to Mexican territory.
The Mexican President indicated that the financial outlook is positive for the country, which demonstrates the viability of its economic model.
“Sovereignty is a bad joke. They can’t say that Mexico is sovereign, even if they say so on the Mañanera, if it can’t even decide whether to send oil to Cuba.”