Tag: NAFTA
After 30 Years of NAFTA, the Working Classes Are Still Losing
Economy
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February 29, 2024
The promise of free trade was never fulfilled. Workers are continuing to lose ground.
A demonstration in 1993 against NAFTA in Austin, Tex.
(Robert Daemmrich Photography Inc / Sygma via Getty Images)
In 1991, when President Carlos Salinas de Gortari proposed a free trade agreement for Mexico, Canada, and the United States, one
Brian Mulroney, Premierminister, der Kanada in die NAFTA führte, stirbt im Alter von 84 Jahren
Er unterzeichnete das historische Freihandelsabkommen mit den Vereinigten Staaten und Mexiko, wurde jedoch von einem Skandal überschattet.
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How US Policy Has Trapped Migrant Workers in an “Open-Air Prison” in Mexico
I first met Jones Carme on an evening in March 2022. He was in front of his apartment on the outskirts of Tapachula, Mexico, a tropical city of some 350,000 people in Chiapas, just 20 minutes from the border with Guatemala. Tapachula was founded by the Aztecs in the 15th century, and just as it was then, the region today is an agricultural hub and a major producer of crops like corn, coffee, mangoes, and bananas. I’d come to this
The United States’ Global Power Is Fading Fast
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