US-Mexico Involvement
Published on Nov 19, 2015
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north american free trade agreement
- Went into effect 1994
- United States, Canada, and Mexico
- decreased/eliminated tariffs
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NAFTA in US
- $918 billion in total (two ways) goods trade with NAFTA - 2010
- $28.3 billion in 2009
- world's largest free trade area
- links 450 million people
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Nafta in Mexico
- Environmental Nightmare
- Destroys traditional& indigenous livelihoods
- Jeopardizes genetic diversity
- Extinction
Gonzalez, Associate Professor, Seattle University School of Law, ‘11
[Carmen G., “AN ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE CRITIQUE OF COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE: INDIGENOUS PEOPLES, TRADE POLICY, AND THE MEXICAN NEOLIBERAL ECONOMIC REFORMS”, University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law, 32 U. Pa. J. Int'l L. 723, Spring]
[Carmen G., “AN ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE CRITIQUE OF COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE: INDIGENOUS PEOPLES, TRADE POLICY, AND THE MEXICAN NEOLIBERAL ECONOMIC REFORMS”, University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law, 32 U. Pa. J. Int'l L. 723, Spring]
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NAFTA is an environmental nightmare
- influx of cheap American corn has impoverished small farmers
- lead to large-scale agricultural operations
- destroy soil, contaminate drinking water and expose people to toxic chems
- interconnected nature of the Mexican and American econ
- globalization of market-failure
Gonzalez, Associate Professor, Seattle University School of Law, ‘11
[Carmen G., “AN ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE CRITIQUE OF COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE: INDIGENOUS PEOPLES, TRADE POLICY, AND THE MEXICAN NEOLIBERAL ECONOMIC REFORMS”, University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law, 32 U. Pa. J. Int'l L. 723, Spring]
[Carmen G., “AN ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE CRITIQUE OF COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE: INDIGENOUS PEOPLES, TRADE POLICY, AND THE MEXICAN NEOLIBERAL ECONOMIC REFORMS”, University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law, 32 U. Pa. J. Int'l L. 723, Spring]
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expanding market freedom
a.k.a. Colonialism of White Mans Burden
And, neoliberalism is perpetuated through the mask of objectivity, operationalized through insidious modes of subjectivization. Expanding market freedom is just another name for the colonialism of the whiteman’s burden.
Springer, Department of Geography, University of Otago, New Zealand, ‘11
[Simon, “Violence sits in places? Cultural practice, neoliberal rationalism, and virulent imaginative geographies”, Political Geography, vol 30, pg. 90-98]
Springer, Department of Geography, University of Otago, New Zealand, ‘11
[Simon, “Violence sits in places? Cultural practice, neoliberal rationalism, and virulent imaginative geographies”, Political Geography, vol 30, pg. 90-98]
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Classical liberalism
- trinity of beliefs
- 1. intense focus on individual
- 2. unfettered markets are considered the most efficient and effective
- 3. a conviction for a non-interventionist state that focuses on
- the maintenance of competitive markets
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Jeopardizes genetic diversity
- also increases vulnerability to pest and disease infestation
- uniform crop
- increases vulnerability to pest and disease infestation
- expansion of monocultures
- extinction
Gonzalez, Associate Professor, Seattle University School of Law, ‘11
[Carmen G., “AN ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE CRITIQUE OF COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE: INDIGENOUS PEOPLES, TRADE POLICY, AND THE MEXICAN NEOLIBERAL ECONOMIC REFORMS”, University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law, 32 U. Pa. J. Int'l L. 723, Spring]
5.3. The Conflict between Agro-Export Specialization and Agro-Biodiversity¶ The theory of comparative advantage promotes economic specialization in goods that a country produces relatively more efficiently. For countries well-suited to agricultural production, the theory of comparative advantage would counsel specialization in several primary agricultural commodities and importation of manufactured
Fowler & Mooney, Of Rural Advancement Fund International, 90 (Shattering: Food, Politics, and the Loss of Genetic Diversity, p. ix)goods.
[Carmen G., “AN ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE CRITIQUE OF COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE: INDIGENOUS PEOPLES, TRADE POLICY, AND THE MEXICAN NEOLIBERAL ECONOMIC REFORMS”, University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law, 32 U. Pa. J. Int'l L. 723, Spring]
5.3. The Conflict between Agro-Export Specialization and Agro-Biodiversity¶ The theory of comparative advantage promotes economic specialization in goods that a country produces relatively more efficiently. For countries well-suited to agricultural production, the theory of comparative advantage would counsel specialization in several primary agricultural commodities and importation of manufactured
Fowler & Mooney, Of Rural Advancement Fund International, 90 (Shattering: Food, Politics, and the Loss of Genetic Diversity, p. ix)goods.
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Now is a key time
- Mexican activists is looking for new strategies to fight for social justice
- March against Monsanto
- opportunity to fuse tradition and innovation into food revolution
And, now is a key time for the movement in order to prevent the introduction of genetically modified monocultures. There is energy now.
Mensing, Alternet Reporter, 5-31-13
[Alex, Thousands in Mexico Protest Monsanto by Throwing a Carnival of Corn”, http://www.alternet.org/activism/thousands-mexico-protest-monsanto-throwing...]
Mensing, Alternet Reporter, 5-31-13
[Alex, Thousands in Mexico Protest Monsanto by Throwing a Carnival of Corn”, http://www.alternet.org/activism/thousands-mexico-protest-monsanto-throwing...]
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