Rural Rage
As Monday’s protests demonstrate, Mexican farmers are at a breaking point. Caught between the USMCA trade agreement and a wall of policies that ignore them, they are fighting for their survival. Their anger will not subside anytime soon.
Farmers strike
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Flour Mills Pay $4 or $5 per Kilo for Corn & Sell Tortillas for $27
“We’re all worn out from working so hard, while you support businessmen who earn billions!,” exclaimed Salvador Ruiz, a farmer from Jalisco, to the Agriculture Secretariat’s delegate.
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Mexican Farmers Occupy US Border Crossing, Protesting Agricultural Policy
Campesinos are demanding the federal government craft a sovereign agricultural scheme & leave the speculative market of the Chicago Stock Exchange, which forces prices well below production value.
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Campeche Corn Farmers Accuse Mexican Agriculture Secretariat of Breaking Promise to Buy Annual Production
Maseca, Minsa, Bachoco, Keken and Crio executives, who import corn from US, also failed to show up to the meeting despite promises from the government.
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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.
