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• Title: NAFTA and Mexico's Agrarian Apocalypse (Thinking Economically)
• Author : Synthesis/Regeneration
• Release Date : January 22, 2008
• Genre: Science & Nature,Books,Politics & Current Events,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 56 KB

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At the stroke of midnight this past January 1, a hundred or so farmers and day laborers from both sides of the border converged on the hump of the Cordoba Las Americas bridge that connects El Paso and Ciudad Juarez, to mark the demise of Mexican agriculture. In accordance with the timetables set by the North American Free Trade Agreement signed by Mexico, the US and Canada 14 years ago, as of January 1 2008, all tariffs on corn, beans, powdered milk, sugar and 200 agricultural products were reduced to zero, setting in motion a doomsday scenario that farmers organizations here say will inevitably lead to crisis in the Mexican "campo" or countryside, mass abandonment of unsustainable plots, increased hunger, and even armed rebellion by the nation's beleaguered small farmers. "If they build steel walls to keep our people from entering the United States, we will make walls of people to keep their products out of Mexico," a grizzled leader of the militant farmers' front El Barzon Popular growled into his bullhorn as the protestors spread out in the frigid dark to block the lanes of the bridge over the river the US calls the Rio Grande and Mexico the Rio Bravo. But traffic was slow and few trailers were lined up to ferry the thousands of tons of US agricultural products that pass over the Cordoba Las Americas into Mexico every day.

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