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A group of Mexican farmer leaders and academics believe that U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's pledge to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA, will be a good opportunity to review areas of the treaty that are not favorable to the sector in Mexico.
Experts say that after 23 years of its implementation, NAFTA, signed by Mexico, the United States and Canada in the early 90s, has helped dismantle Mexico's agricultural production system through neoliberal policies that have left millions of poor farmers without state support and have increased the country's food dependency on aboard, La Jornada reported Tuesday.
Since his presidential campaign, Trump has vowed to force Canada and Mexico to negotiate the trade deal saying it has been detrimental to the manufacturing industry in the United States, sending shocking waves of uncertainty for the already weakened Mexican economy.
[...] In the years that have followed the NAFT signing, the Mexican government has sold itself as a pro-business and lower-cost alternative for U.S. companies and in the process became a manufacturing powerhouse of cars, computers, aerospace technology and televisions.
However, the modernization process also helped dismantle the national agricultural system, which has practically disappeared, according to analysts and producers.
Source: teleSUR
(Score: 0, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 30 2016, @03:52PM
Any article that uses neoliberal or neoconservative immediately identifies itself as biased writing.
All this seems to state is that a new conservative future awaits mexico because the plants are growing as crooked as Hillary because Clintons.
(Score: 3, Touché) by maxwell demon on Friday December 30 2016, @03:58PM
Any comment containing "lost interest once I read [word or phrase]" other than as a quote is worthless.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 30 2016, @04:47PM
Ah, got a bit of the lawyer in you, don't you?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 31 2016, @03:28AM
Just the tip.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 30 2016, @07:51PM
lost interest once I read [word or phrase]
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 30 2016, @08:18PM
you neocryptologist!
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Scruffy Beard 2 on Friday December 30 2016, @08:29PM
I believe that is a litecoin address, so the insult checks out.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by jmorris on Friday December 30 2016, @05:18PM
You have taken the first step, now come to the Dark Side and understand ALL journalism is like that, some are just sloppy enough to give the game away in an obvious way while some are more subtle. It all has an agenda, look for it, understand it, then read the particular article as the identified political camp's position on a subject or event and go look for the other opinions, the facts the other sides think important to include, etc. and only then are you ready to attempt an understanding and form your own opinion.
Now as to this story, I'm sure NAFTA has nasty bits for political outgroups in all three countries, it wasn't just bad for America. Any "Free Trade" agreement that runs to thousands of pages plus permanent rulemaking authorities is not going to be anything resembling "Free Trade." So if we are renegotiating it, everybody needs to get to the table.
I want to see Mexico become Great. Can't MMGA because they haven't ever been, but they could be. They have natural resources, a people who aren't retards and a big honking trading partner right on their border. All they need is political stability, Rule of Law and something approaching a Capitalist economy. Best way to solve the immigration problem for good is to make Mexicans love Mexico enough to stay there instead of coming here and loving it from afar.
(Score: 3, Informative) by urza9814 on Friday December 30 2016, @06:49PM
We've already achieved that, mostly by making America kinda suck. Migration from Mexico into the US is currently net negative, likely due to a combination of our economic decline and discriminatory legislation.
http://www.pewhispanic.org/2015/11/19/more-mexicans-leaving-than-coming-to-the-u-s/ [pewhispanic.org]
(Score: 2) by jmorris on Friday December 30 2016, @07:43PM
You kinda give your game away with your language choices. "discriminatory legislation" as a euphemism for "enforcing our laws" tells me you aren't the sort who can engage in a debate in good faith. Hell yes I want to "discriminate" against criminals. And they are, crossing our border without permission is a crime, the word for people who commit crimes is "criminal", don't take my word for it, open a damned dictionary and see for yourself. The fact our elites encouraged the criminality, turned a blind eye to it and exploited those people doesn't change it, just means we need to punish them too.
And it doesn't even mean I have to hate the people who exploited the opportunity to be exploited, I can understand that Mexico and points South suck so hard that being a second class illegal in America was a trade up. But in the end it isn't my problem and they have to go home. Let them put the drive and initiative they demonstrated by making the often difficult journey here into making their own homelands great.
(Score: 3, Informative) by urza9814 on Friday December 30 2016, @08:13PM
Native-born American citizens get locked up in detention, forced to labor for $1/day until they can earn enough to purchase a copy of their birth certificate from their own government to prove their innocence, all because some cop decided, based on their skin color, that they "looked" undocumented. THAT is what I mean by "discriminatory legislation." Because these aren't just criminals, and despite our laws guaranteeing that people are "innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt", in the immigration enforcement system people are instead considered guilty until they can prove their innocence. And they're often given mere minutes to prove that innocence to a judge that doesn't speak their language without the assistance of legal representation. The whole system is nothing but one big violation of our Constitutional rights.
And when they lose the trial, we take people who have been living here since they were three years old, and dump them in some foreign country where they have no family, no friends, no resources, and don't even speak the language.
Also bear in mind that the US does have some laws on the books which allow people to immigrate to this country without following the usual immigration process (asylum and such.) So just because someone is undocumented that still doesn't mean they are here unlawfully. But again, it's hard to plead that case when you have five minutes with no lawyer and you may not even understand what's going on.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday December 30 2016, @09:49PM
He doesn't give a shit. J-Mo here, unlike say Runaway, is actually a sociopath. Runaway's just an asshole; Mr. Morris is outright certifiable.
And the one thing to remember about people like that, is that they're bullshitters. They don't care what words mean so long as they can use them to further their own ends. Even if the result LOOKS superficially coherent, critical analysis reveals contradictions, lies, evasions, half-truths, and all the other tricks of the trade engaged in by those who would prostitute Reason.
He's a wild-eyed fanatic. Just check his post history. Something is broken in this man's brain and I don't think any power on earth can fix him.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Friday December 30 2016, @11:35PM
You have taken the first step, now come to the Dark Side and understand ALL journalism is like that,
Darth Jmorris? Always two there are, an idiot, and another idiot.
All they need is political stability, Rule of Law and something approaching a Capitalist economy.
Su madre, Gringo!!