Thread: Remittances from 2008 are down 30% in Mexico

TRANSLATED FROM:
http://www.milenio.com/index.php/2008/05/20/241302/

Mexico City.– The remittances from the U.S. that were sent starting this year, diminished 30 percent, due to the politics of pursuit against the migrants that work in that country, assured the general secretary of the Rural National Confederation, Hilaria DomÃ*nguez Arvizú.

In an interview the also acting senator of Nayarit notified that during the last month that policy has arrived at the businesses where the Mexican workers had been working without documents, for which they were returned to Mexico in forced form.

Through out the locations were labor is being expeled from Mexico an increment in poverty is observed because the resources that once before were obtained by the remittances are not arriving.

Now the peasants do not have financing, seed certificates, supplies not fertilizers for the preparation of their land in the spring-summer cycle, for which they see hard times ahead because they do not have the resources that proceeded form remittances.

The CNC proposed that public policies destined to the rural sector be revised to improve the conditions in which the peasants live and to assure the production of the agricultural cycle of spring-summer that already initiated in the center and south of the country.

There is a shortage of capital for small business in Mexico. Most of the remittances sent to Mexico have been spent on direct consumption. There has been a disproportionate benefit to the Mexican corporations providing manufactured food. There are now modern multi million Mexican food companies. The solution is to educate the remittance senders to insist that where it is possible the beneficiaries grow their own food or else buy from smaller local sources. This leads to a family having savings, increases income and creates jobs. Having a policy of continued investment even in Mexico produces better results than does moving family members to a higher income and higher cost environment against immigration laws.

Better lock your doors

Rural National Confederation, Hilaria DomÃ*nguez Arvizú called the people peasants.

Wasn't a member of the CO legislature censored and removed from the floor for asking why CO needed X number of illerate peasants?

The Mexican consulate got in the act too and was critical of him.

Besides the job magnet we need to eliminate the remittance magnet.