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The emigration of workers from Mexico towards the United States is due to poverty, to the insufficient education and health system, and to the lack of protection for farmers, she added.

They multinational businesses and the rich in my country are the ones that have benefited with NAFTA, because in Mexico agriculture is unprotected, while the American farmers receive subsidies from their government, she underlined.

A serious example, she expressed, is appreciated in the case of the cultivation of corn, in which the speculators are enriched, while the farmers in Mexico, without public assistance, lack money to buy herbicides and fertilizers.

She indicated that each time supplies for crops are more expensive and when drought or climatic adversities destroy the work of the peasants, they are deserted, because it is not a priority of the government.

She added that American businesses obtain cheap labor in Mexican territory, but the companies of the Aztec nation (Mexico) lose markets in the uneven field with the powerful businesses of the United States.

Another serious question is the problem of ownership of lands, because small farms of less than four acres, are being sold to businesses interested in increasing their power in Mexico.

Trade Agreements should be revoked and towns have to unite against that system of unfavorable commerce for the poor and one that transnational businesses obtain large profits from.