The Deliberate Agrarian: Roots of the Current World Food Crisis - The Diigo Meta page

• 24 Jun 08
  

  Wisely

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  • ”Not only are [Mexican] farmers not growing food, but we are going hungry because we can’t afford the foreign food that drove us off our farms,” said Mario Aguila, 48, who left his farm in Oxaca state because he could no longer support his family.
    
    Aguila now sweeps floors in a Mexico City mall and marched in last year’s protests against tortilla price rises.
  • The same newspaper article states than an estimated “200,000 Mexicans a year have fled the countryside for the city or the United States since NAFTA was launched in 1994.”
    
    Does that statement mean that the flood of millions of illegals over our southern border in recent years was exacerbated by NAFTA? I’d say so.

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