Agricultural Producers Call for Removing Basic Grains from USMCA, Building Food Sovereignty
What’s the point of lowering inflation with cheap imported products that generate unemployed people who have no income to purchase cheap goods?
What’s the point of lowering inflation with cheap imported products that generate unemployed people who have no income to purchase cheap goods?
US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer stated that there will be no negotiations to extend or renew the USMCA while Mexico does not “comply” with the energy, telecommunications, agriculture, & other sectors.
Mexico can use its voice and standing to once again act as a bulwark against US imperialism, writes José Luis Granados Ceja.
The Embassy expressed its “strong dissatisfaction and firm opposition” to remarks by Mark Johnson of the US Embassy, which it described as blatant rhetoric.
“The adversary is too strong to confront individually, what is desirable is the unity of the continent’s governments against imperialist policies.”
Cuban scholar Jorge Hernández Martínez’s presentation to the 29th International Seminar of the Workers Party of Mexico.
With the USMCA revision, Mexico will be even less self-sufficient in food as the US pushes for more imports and Mexico lacks a substantive policy to support and develop national agricultural production.
The history of NAFTA, and subsequently of USMCA, is the largest transfer of wealth from Mexico to the US in their shared history since the 19th century.
The Mexican government must navigate between the demands of large transnational corporations who look out only for their own interests, and those who have experienced the ravages of free trade and fight for alternatives to the neoliberal model.
If Mexico applies tariffs to China, it would be validating the United States’ tariff policy, and China will take countermeasures, says Ma Hui, a member of the Communist Party of China’s Central Committee.