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.
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Corn Producers Maintain 12 Blockades in 5 States
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.
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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.
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Farmers Hold National Strike, 17 States Face Roadblocks
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.
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USMCA is “dead, it no longer exists.”
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”
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Soberanía 79: Onshoring Sadism
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.
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Trump Proposes Separate Agreements with Mexico & Canada
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.
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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?
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US Warns No USMCA Negotiations if Mexico Does Not Give In
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.
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Neoliberal Policies Have Compromised Mexico’s Food Sovereignty
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.
