Thread: MEX Farmers close border, protest NAFTA.

TRANSLATED FROM:
http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/471267.html

Scores of peasants formed today a "human wall" in a bridge in the border of Mexico with the United States to protest against the total opening of the agricultural commerce, established in the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).

The agreement signed by Mexico, the United States and Canada, which began on January 1, 1994, decrees that starting today the commerce of corn, bean, cane sugar and powdered milk should be free from tariffs, among the members of NAFTA.

The protest began in the first minute of this Tuesday in the bridge Cordoba-Americas that joins the Mexican city of Juárez (Chihuahua) and El Paso (Texas), said VÃ*ctor Quintana, advisor of the organization Rural Democratic Front (FDC).

Two of the four lanes between United States and Mexico were blocked by some 200 peasants, said Quintana, who is also a leftist representative in the Congress of the state of Chihuahua.

For some six months the FDC initiated the campaign "Without corn there is not country, without bean neither" to denounce that with the entrance of the agrarian chapter of NAFTA the Mexican peasants are going to go to bankruptcy, because in 14 years there hasn't been the necessary changes to face this challenge.

Quintana said in the demonstration, carried out on the Mexican side, that they had no problems with the authorities of both countries.

Upon initiating the protest, that will last 36 hours, the activists read a titled document "Plan of the Chamizal" in which he made "a calling to the nation to begin a new phase of fight for preserve the eating sovereignty and the social conquests of the Mexicans and to defend the natural resources", said Quintana.

The social organizations that are opposed to the agricultural chapter of NAFTA assure that the producers and Mexican consumers "will face serious risks" due to the fact that Mexico "does not have a strategic reserve of grains and basic food".

To this, they add that two large businesses, an American and a Mexican, "control the importing and exporting" of these products.

They ask that NAFTA be renegotiated and be submited to the rules of the World organization of Commerce (OMC) to erase from the treaty the basic and strategic products.

Good for them!

End NAFTA now!

Fences make good neighbors.

Now thats what I am talking about... shut the fricking border down.

What is amazing is it took the Jan 1 2008 corn and bean flood from the US market to scare the mexican farmers into this frenzy

They know they cannot compete with these big agriculture conglomerates, bean picking by hand compared to combines ... we are about to put the mexican farmers out of business in the name of huge profits to globalist companies

We should go protest with them..a multi-national protest at the common border! NAFTA sucks and the ones who designed it knew it would for the little guy. They didn't care.

NAFTA Superhighway traffic tied to bridge collapse
WND uncovers federal study warning of high risk in 1998

Believe article from Aug. 6, 2007
By Jerome R. Corsi

Evidence of increasing international trade truck traffic on Interstate 35 through Minnesota raises concerns that NAFTA Superhighway traffic contributed to last week’s collapse of the freeway bridge in Minneapolis


WND has unearthed a Federal Highway Administration report dating back to 1998 that warned increasing NAFTA truck traffic was expected to create a safety concern with bridges in states along the I-35 NAFTA Superhighway, including Minnesota.

The study concluded that, “The I-35 Corridor’s multimodal transportation hubs – where air, rail, river, and truck cargo converge – make I-35 ideally positioned to be a major route for what is expected to be increasing levels of international trade activity.â€

Yes, it shows once again, that the issue of immigration/illegal immigration/trade policy are highly linked and intertwined, and that the differences in perspective on these issues are more likely to exist vertically (as in elite vs. worker) in BOTH US and Mexican societies.

There is nothing wrong with slowing down [presumed] progress, taking a 'time-out' with respect to hemispheric trade agreements or treaties, and forming a plan on how to allow the working and middle-classes adequate time to adapt to such proposed changes.

Good Good Good! Who needs Mexico when we have China flooding our markets with cheap goods and food.

Mexico is like that dirty nextdoor neighbor who devalues the entire neighborhood with their filthy, weed infested yard and cars parked all over the place. Why we continue to do business and give aid to a country that wants to destroy the United States is mystifying.

If I had my druthers, I'd rather do business with Mexico than China. We can deal with Mexico, but dealing with China would be like telling Hitler to surrender his weapon, or like telling Bush to close the borders.

We HAVE to get away from doing business with China. WE ARE ON THEIR HIT LIST, and any fool with a half a brain knows this.

Originally Posted by AirborneSapper7

They know they cannot compete with these big agriculture conglomerates, bean picking by hand compared to combines ...

They might if they had enough labor...Now just where could they find people who are just here to work?...

Rockfish,

First of all, I was being sarcastic when I mentioned China. Our trade deficit with China is deplorable and should not be tolerated either.

But you say we can "Deal with Mexico." How's that going thus far? Throwing billions of dollars at their corrupt government. Refusing to build a fence along our Souther Borders to keep the illegal invaders out. Allowing the illegals to anchor up which opens the door to all the social benefits this country has to offer. We have elected officials that cannot pass laws quick enough in order to aid and abett the illegal invader.

Sure, I really trust the federal government to "Deal with Mexico." Any idiot with half a brain knows this has been an abysmal failure thus far.