Mexico’s farmers strike has not ended, as the government has only negotiated with certain producers over issues such as a low price for corn which benefits monopolies and the destruction of food sovereignty initiated by free trade with the US.
Producers did not agree to formalize the base price of 5,200 pesos offered by the government in this most recent national agricultural strike.
Mexico’s Peasant Agricultural Movement & National Union of Agricultural Workers deployed throughout the country for the second time in as many weeks, demanding the government set a minimum price on corn and end the destruction of their livelihoods caused by decades of free trade.
UNAM’s Enrique Dussel Peters warned that it will be replaced by an American tactic of bilateral blackmail & that if Mexico unilaterally imposes tariffs on China, Mexico “is heading towards a dead end”
The US’ War on Terror comes to Latin America, Mexican foreign policy & the Global Sumud Flotilla, USMCA bullying, national polling, and media spin from the LA & NY Times.
Separate agreements from the USMCA could prevent Canada & Mexico from working together to protect their own domestic priority areas such as public healthcare, generic pharmaceutical production, water, agricultural policy and natural resources.
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.
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.