Mexico’s Agricultural Crisis & Transnational Corporations
National agriculture is in crisis, and if the government does not respond, the food supply for Mexicans will be left in the hands of transnational corporations.
Corn
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Mexican Corn Corporations Manipulate Prices
In October 2024, Mexico’s anti-trust authority decried the situation as being an oligopoly, and singled out Maseca, Minsa, Gruma, Cargill as paying unfair prices for white corn while reaping extreme profits selling to tortilla shops.
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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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Mexico Will Be Self-Sufficient in White Corn in 2025
This reverses the prediction only a few months ago that 2025 would be a bad year for domestic white corn production as a result of drought and require significant imports.
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More Than Food: US Threaten’s Mexico’s Corn
In response to AMLO’s ban, the US filed a suit to force Mexico to accept US GMO corn. Will Mexico, like China with the Opium War, be forced to import a product they judge unsafe for their people and harmful to their native agriculture?
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Mexico meets US challenge to show science behind GM corn restrictions
Mexico demonstrated that the cultivation and consumption of genetically modified corn have different negative effects on health, native corn and the environment.
