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.
Mexico’s 2026 budget contains a 30% reduction in public investment in the first half of 2025 compared to the same period in 2024, and a fiscal policy that places discipline and debt reduction as guiding principles of public finance.
The deregulation sought by Trump would imply a setback in the defense of the national interest and openness to more U.S. investment, an acceptance of the dominance of colonizing neoliberalism.
Mexico’s Economy Secretary Marcelo Ebrard highlighted bilateral frictions on the issue of non-tariff barriers.
Over three decades into North American free trade, it’s clear that the winners are overwhelmingly US corporations who have profited from Mexico’s low manufacturing and production costs to the detriment of Mexican labour, land and societal well-being.
American society’s destiny is in the hands of irrationality.
In response to AMLO’s ban, the US filed a suit to force Mexico to accept US GMO corn. Will Mexico, like China with the Opium War, be forced to import a product they judge unsafe for their people and harmful to their native agriculture?
A relationship between a U.S. and a Mexican union, forged in the face of NAFTA, has borne fruit over decades of struggle. Two leaders reflect on the importance of international solidarity.