Why Do Mexican Workers Head North?

Nearly 23,000 people have been killed in drug-related violence in Mexico since a US-backed military crackdown on cartels began more than three years ago. The report said 2009 was the deadliest year in the drug war, with over 9,600 people killed. The death toll is on track to be even higher in 2010. Amy Goodman, Democracy Now, speaks with reporter Charles Bowden, author of Murder City: Ciudad Juárez and the Global Economy's New Killing Fields, concerning the current state of affairs in Mexico.

NAFTA's Ultimate Effect on Mexico - Interview with Reporter Charles Bowden



Timothy Wise: Mexican agriculture was undermined by NAFTA and companies like Smithfield



The promise was that NAFTA would allow Mexico to export goods instead of people. Manufacturing has created very few jobs, because it has destroyed the Manufacturing economy by allowing foreign investment to come in and buy up and put local Mexican companies out of business. It has also decimated Mexico's agri-business. Corn tariffs were dissolved and wholesale prices went down 66%, but this has not translated to the wholesale market. 2.3 million people have left agriculture since NAFTA. These people have come to America. That is where the illegal immigrant problem has come from.

IT IS TIME TO RE-EXAMINE NAFTA!!!

Ross Perot debates Al Gore in 1993 and once again is prescient about what has happened. If you want to know where that Mack truck came from that hit our economy, then watch this historic video.