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 News Around the Republic of Mexico | January 2008 
Mexico Campesinos Join NAFTA Fight
 Prensa Latina
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| | Mexican farmers protest the end of import protections for their country's corn and bean crops in Mexico City. (AP/Eduardo Verdugo) | | |
Mexico City - Mexican campesino organizations announced their adhesion to a front of struggle against the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) with protests throughout the country and a concentration in the capital.
At the same time they refused to accept talks with Agriculture Secretary, Alberto Cardenas, for a meeting where the official was expected to defend the official position in favor of the agreement signed with the United States and Canada.
The National Campesino Confederation, the Cardenist Campesino Central, the Independent Campesino Union, the National Council of Campesino Organizations, the National Dialogue Organization and the National Union of Farm Workers make up the front.
The National Association of Commercial Entities of the Countryside, the Ayala Plan Coordinator, the National Campesino Conference and the Agrarian Congress joins them. With this, practically the entire agrarian sectors are represented.
Campesino entities requested support of union sectors and have already received adhesion to the struggle from the Mexican Electricity Workers Union, the Mexican National Front and the Teacherós Union as well as several social movements.
Leaders of these campesino and union groups told the press that they would request the Congress to assume its constitutional right to force a renegotiation of NAFTA that they considered was the ruination of the countryside.
They also denounced that about 30 foreign companies now control the export market of Mexican farm products and aim to use NAFTA to evict national producers.
Protests were announced against Agriculture branches throughout the country, as well as highway blocks and marches in different states to precede the great concentration against NAFTA on January 31 in the capital. |
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