No Agreement: Government Denies Support to Sugarcane Growers, Postpones Response for 2 Weeks
The unsuccessful meeting arose after the government agreed to it to end a November 12th sugarcane grower blockade in Mexico City.
Agriculture
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Reducing Inflation with Cheap Imports is Costly
Mexico’s imports are equivalent to 48% of agricultural production, resulting in a year-on-year loss of food sovereignty and a greater dependence on capital inflows which benefits the financial sector at the expense of national public & private sectors.
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The Crisis in the Mexican Countryside
Environmental deregulation, rural abandonment, speculative pricing, and the prioritization of property rights over human rights were central tenets of neoliberal economic policy, whose impact on Mexican farmers is now a subject of reflection in our country.
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Sugarcane Growers Lift Blockade: Will Establish Working Group with Mexican Agriculture Secretariat for Rescue Plan
After 30 hours of protest, the sugarcane farmers lifted their blockade in Mexico City, signing a document that did not include their request for a 300 pesos per ton subsidy.
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Campesinos Demand Halt to Attorney General’s Investigation Into Farmers Strike Blockades
Farmers had planned to block customs & international bridges a week prior, but decided against it to avoid retaliation from the US government.
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The Mirage of Development Without Industry & Without Agriculture
Mexico, a country that could have been an agricultural powerhouse, resigns itself to surviving on band-aids, managing its decline with welfare programs that change names but not their underlying logic while sacrificing food sovereignty to USMCA diktat.
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Mexico’s Ministry of Agriculture Favours US Producers Over Mexican Producers
The Mexican government’s response to the just demands of corn producers reveals that for all its rhetoric about food sovereignty, it remains committed to neoliberal agricultural policies that devastated Mexican agriculture.
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Corn Producers Maintain 12 Blockades in 5 States
Mexico’s farmers strike has not ended, as the government has only negotiated with certain producers over issues such as a low price for corn which benefits monopolies and the destruction of food sovereignty initiated by free trade with the US.
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Corn Producers: Agreement with Government Only Partially Meets Demands
Producers did not agree to formalize the base price of 5,200 pesos offered by the government in this most recent national agricultural strike.
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Grain Producers Reject Government Offer: “It doesn’t cover costs.”
Amigos por el Campo pointed out that Altagracia Gómez as president of one of Mexico’s corn monopolies & a key advisor to President Sheinbaum, might contribute to the government’s unwillingness to resolve the dispute.
