Restore Campesino Rights, Reject the USMCA
José Jacobo Femat of the Central of Peasant & Popular Organizations, rejects the USMCA entirely, saying free trade agreements have effectively turned Mexico into a colony of US multinationals.
Agriculture
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Glyphosate: the Legal & Political Battle That Defines the Future of the World’s Most Widely Used Herbicide
A US Supreme Court decision on cancer & agrochemicals is taking place as the Trump administration declares glyphosate a national security priority.
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USMCA & The Destruction of Mexican Agriculture
The treaty didn’t open a neutral market; it consolidated a mechanism in which Mexico absorbs subsidized grains that sustain income & territorial power on the US side of the border, while here, producers, communities, & margins of sovereignty are dismantled.
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Indigenous Communities Denounce Non-Compliance by Mexico’s Agriculture Secretariat, Announce Day of Protest
The Supreme Indigenous Council of Michoacán demanded the removal of the Agricultural Secretary, citing omissions, negligence, & mismanagement of public funds.
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Farmers Warn of World Cup Protests After Cancelled Meeting with Interior Secretariat
In Mexico City, farmers were met by riot police and a heavy security presence.
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Mexican National Farmers Strike for Food Sovereignty
Progress toward food sovereignty requires policies that protect, regulate, and promote the responsibility of the State. Maintaining the mistaken notion that these are goodwill aid packages given to farmers and agricultural producers only when budgetary resources are available will deepen the agricultural crisis and increase food dependency.
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The USMCA is Causing a Decline in Mexican Agriculture
What can the phrase “Without corn, there is no country” mean when domestic corn production is on its last legs in the face of US dumping and the state’s inability to fight neoliberal free trade?
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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.
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The Return of the Farmers
The fact that the authorities have spoken with the farmers doesn’t mean their demands have been met. Caught between the fire of the USMCA and the wall of public policies that strangle or abandon them, they are fighting for their survival.
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Mexico National Farmers Strike, Day 1
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.
