Up to 100,000 Mexican Farmers Protest NAFTA

[Winter]

In Mexico, up to 100,000 farmers and supporters marched through Mexico City Thursday to rally against the lifting of tariffs on U.S. imports. A Mexican tax on basic crops, including corn, beans and sugar, from Canada and the U.S. ended last month under the North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA. Critics say NAFTA has devastated Mexican farmers by forcing them to compete with government-subsidized American and Canadian goods. Farmer Armando Villegas was one of the protesters.


Armando Villegas: “The public policies of the North American Free Trade are wrong. The public policies of the NAFTA agreement have created a Frankenstein and as it is fed with bad public policies, this is disastrous for us. The government has created a Frankenstein in the countryside with its bad public policies. If these public policies weren’t so bad the NAFTA wouldn’t worry us.”

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Just wondering if anybody knows more or has anything to say about this story. :)

[Bright Banana Beard]

Awesome, they should keep it up and fuck that bourgeois Mexican government.

[quevivafidel]

Que vivan los campesinos y obreros Mexicanos!!!

[Winter]

Awesome, they should keep it up and fuck that bourgeois Mexican government.

Mexico is long over due for a revolution IMO.

[MT5678]

Yeah. But lets hope the factory workers join them. Otherwise, things could get nasty.

[AnarchyRulz]

Kudos Comrades, it's about time more spoke out against the corrupt Mexican government which EXPORTS, EXPLOITS and basicially prostitutes it's own citizens. And, yes, unless the urban workers join in it will be a short lived Revolution.

[BIG BROTHER]

yes Indeed and quite sadly, our goverment just exploits us, and as you can tell it also lets other nations exploit its workers and farmers.

farmers in mexico have always had it really hard, and when they made this trade agreement, there were people who said that it was going to be only benefitial to the united states, but nobody listened and the goverment didn't care, and this are the consecuences

and there was a time when mexican students did want a revolution to end the burguoise rule, but in the infamous date of october 2nd the students were surrounded by soldiers during a political manifestation and were all muredered.

[Entrails Konfetti]

How come everyone says this is the worst policy ever, and everyone sees all this horrible shit, yet, this policy is still enacted?

For me, the Corona beer doesn't outweigh the terribleness of this policy! I'm sorry, but it doesn't!