After a decade of NAFTA, Mexican corn farmers face ruin

“After a decade of suffering the blows of free trade, deregulation and competition, the small-plot corn farmers of the rolling hills of Mexico’s western Michoacan state have seen the future - and it often looks disturbingly like the past.

Free trade advocates gathered in Hong Kong for the World Trade Organization summit this week argue opening agricultural markets benefit poor producers by giving them access to foreign markets….”

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