Mexico City Police Close Reforma to Stop Farmers Protest
With trucks, patrol cars, riot police, and even an official tow truck, the police blocked vehicles carrying protesters, despite their right to public demonstration.
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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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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’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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Mexican Farmers Strike Starts March 23rd: “We will do everything in our power to prevent the World Cup from taking place”
The objective of the mobilizations is to pressure large importers & grain buyers, who buy subsidized US imports instead of national production.
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The Inconsistencies of Ebrard
Mexico’s Secretary of Economy touts a new trade policy of origin over price, yet the import of highly subsidized staple grains benefits US producers at the expense of Mexico’s domestic producers.
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Farmers Will Blockade World Cup if Government Doesn’t Address Agricultural Crisis
Mexico’s three year crisis is causing desperation, aggravated by US crop dumping, a hostile Agriculture Secretary, monopoly profiteering and an unwillingness from the government to protect agriculture and food sovereignty.
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Mexican Farmers Announce Nation-Wide Blockades for March 20th
Citing insufficient support, bankruptcies, crop-dumping by the US, and abandoning Mexican food sovereignty in USMCA negotiations, farmers say the government’s ties to big business has pushed them to this national action.
