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.
Agriculture
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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.
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Mexico’s National Farmers Strike Begins Today in 20 States
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.
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Mexico Imports Record Amount of Corn From US
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.
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High Oil & Fertilizer Prices are Impacting Mexican Agriculture
Research professor Gerardo Noriega says the cost of armed and trade wars has hit Mexican agricultural producers hard.
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Mexican Hawaiians, Paniolos and Planters
Sonora-born coffee grower Armando Rodriguez now calls Hawaii his home: carrying on a tradition since the early 1800s, when King Kamehameha welcomed vaqueros, or paniolos, to the island to train horses & breed cattle.
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In San Quintín, Agricultural Workers Pick for Northern Profit
Early morning starts, picking a kind of modern “red gold” that grows in the south of Baja California.
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Network in Defense of Corn Warns of Risk to Mexico’s Native Seeds
Communities spoke out against seed ownership systems and policies that promote land privatization and commodification, warning that these measures affect autonomy and community organization.
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Nine Out of Ten Agricultural Workers in San Quintín, Baja California Don’t Have Social Security
“The separation between landowners, agricultural companies, and transnational corporations, combined with the multiple levels of labor intermediation, creates an extremely complicated context for workers.”
