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.
Food Sovereignty
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La Via Campesina Issues Global Call Against WTO & Free Trade Agreements
The relentless promotion of Free Trade Agreements has led to widespread privatization and deregulation, primarily benefiting corporations at the expense of the working class everywhere.
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Mexico’s Sugarcane Growers Want Just Treatment Under USMCA
Mexican sugar exports face quotas in the US, but US corn syrup and high fructose corn syrup have no import restrictions in Mexico, a situation even worse than the original NAFTA agreement.
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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.
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Mexico’s Food Self-Sufficiency Declines
Agro-Industrial crops are grown for export while heavily subsidized imports from the US destroy corn and basic grain production. Has the government decided to sacrifice Mexican agriculture to save free trade?
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Mexican Farmers to Mobilize for Food Sovereignty & Agricultural Model Transformation March 20th
Farmers will seek to prevent the transit of heavily subsidized grains imported from the US & denounced the concentration of the food market by a small number of transnational corporations.
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Not By Bread Alone…
Returning to the Mesoamerican milpa agricutlural system could revitalize agriculture, while defending Mexicans and Mexico from a tangled, global necro-politics.
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Mexican Agricultural Secretariat Receives 3,514 Applications for Corn Producer Subsidies
Mexican corn producers have been devastated by low prices resulting from the dumping of heavily subsidized corn from the US.
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Neither Corn Nor Country
The Fourth Transformation promised food self-sufficiency for Mexico and to rescue agriculture, but heavily-subsidized US imports have never been higher, while farmers go bankrupt and the crisis reaches intolerable levels.
