Saturday, December 25, 2010

SO WHAT GIVES WITH MEXICO? MAYBE NOT WHAT YOU'RE TAUGHT TO THINK.



December 20, 2010

NAFTA + US Farm Subsidies Devastates Mexican Agriculture

Why Do Mexican Workers Head North Pt.2 - Tim Wise: US corn exported to Mexico at 19% below cost of production, based on his study

More at The Real News


November 26, 2010

Why Do Mexican Workers Head North

Timothy Wise: Mexican agriculture was undermined by NAFTA and companies like Smithfield

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November 22, 2010

Mexico's lost Generation

Al Jazeera: In Mexico, 35, 000 children under the age of 18, are estimated to have been recruited to work for drug gangs

More at The Real News

3 comments:

Jim R said...

I think the phrase I have recently seen describes all this stuff as "the bellowings of a mortally wounded superpower". Though I suppose the aptness of that phrase does not bear too much scrutiny. Said superpower may be simply dying of old age and cancer.

David Griscom said...

I assume you refer to El Superpower del Norte.

Jim R said...

Si

(not a comment on this particular article but you seem to have a theme going here..)