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 News Around the Republic of Mexico | January 2008 
NAFTA Leads Vulnerable Mexican Agriculture to Chaos
 Prensa Latina
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Mexico City - Mexican agriculture has been vulnerable for years and today's situation is chaotic due to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), Labor Party Senator Rosario Ibarra said.
"For many years, the farmers' rights have been violated, but even more now after the final chapter of the NAFTA came into force to lift tariffs on beans and corn, which are basic products for Mexicans," charged the humanitarian activist.
She told Prensa Latina that governments have forgotten Mexican agriculture and have kept for themselves everything they wanted.
Ibarra is certain that this is the reason why thousands of Mexicans leave for the United States at the mercy of death to seek support for their families, a right that has been denied to them in their own country.
The NAFTA was implemented 14 years ago and was sealed with the lifting of tariffs on corn and beans in early 2008, leading common farmers to bankruptcy and making them leave for other places, even for a very low salary, and affected by terrible consequences for the rest of his life, she noted.
She added that transnational companies take advantage of the situation and, along with the administrations, take everything and want to undermine the root of our culture: corn, an autochthonous grain from the continent and from Mexico.
Ibarra, a former presidential candidate during the 1982 elections in Mexico, was proposed for the Peace Nobel Prize in 1986, 1987, 1989 and 2006 for her work in defense of political prisoners and people missing in action. |
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