USMCA Fetishism
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.
USMCA
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Mexico, Canada & the USMCA: Status Quo or Course Correction?
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.
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It’s Irresponsible to Continue with Budgets Cuts & The USMCA
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.
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Trump Fake-out, or not: the Question of Non-Tariff Trade Barriers
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.
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Conversation was Cordial, but not “Between Friends,” Ebrard Admits
Mexico’s Economy Secretary Marcelo Ebrard highlighted bilateral frictions on the issue of non-tariff barriers.
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USMCA’s Biggest Winners? 515 Transnational Corporations
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.
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WHAT DOES TRUMP WANT?
American society’s destiny is in the hands of irrationality.
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More Than Food: US Threaten’s Mexico’s Corn
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?
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A Strategic Cross-Border Labor Alliance
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.
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Mexico meets US challenge to show science behind GM corn restrictions
Mexico demonstrated that the cultivation and consumption of genetically modified corn have different negative effects on health, native corn and the environment.
