By David L. Wilson, Truthout
August 21, 2017The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) went into effect at midnight on January 1,
A Mexican response to NAFTA, January 2994 |
NAFTA is back in the news this month: On August 16, US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer met with his counterparts from Canada and Mexico, the other two NAFTA nations, to open talkson renegotiating the pact.
While it's true that NAFTA was just one of the many problems Mexico had in the 1990s, we have to wonder, given the renewed focus on the trade accord, why US mainstream media have carried so little discussion of the events that accompanied NAFTA's rollout in Mexico.[…]
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