Alberto Vizcarra Ozuna
In recent days the President Andres Manuel Lopez Obradorhe once again insisted in his calling or appointment that the criteria free exchange which have as their axis the consumer market USAin the diagram NAFTA-USMCAspread to everyone Latin America.
The slogan that the president came up with from the very beginning of his reign, upon ratification of all neoliberal macroeconomic policies associated with a commercial scheme and which, in episodes in which the debate between the countries of Central and South America gains intensity, comes to the surface for joining the growing grouping of nations of the world, which under the acronym BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa), to seek alternative ways to resolve the misunderstandings that have arisen within the commercial and financial norms determined by the dollar system, International Monetary Fund and banking structures Wall Street And London.
The President’s slogan of unconditional commitment to NAFTA-TMEC did not find consensus in Mexico; and especially since the country acts like a crust against the emergence of nations that do not resign themselves to imposed unfavorable hegemony private financial interests that control the North American government.
And disagreement with this unconditional surrender came from the Mexican village. One of the sectors most affected by such policies.
On January 8, a farmer from the northern region of Sinaloa – the main producer of corn in Mexico – Baltasar Valdez Armentiaat a meeting called by the producers in Carrizo, Sinaloawith a presidential candidate Xochitl Galvezpresented a coherent paper in which he explains the horizon without the future that food production in Mexico has if it continues to be unconditionally tied to the pricing policies governed by trade agreements derived from NAFTA.-TMEC.
Valdez Armentia’s approach was presented on behalf of producers from more than twenty states of the Republic, grouped around National Front for the Salvation of the Mexican Village, a new organization that emerged in the midst of a mobilization of producers across the country last spring, in response to falling prices for wheat, corn and sorghum, as well as the ever-increasing cost of inputs to production. All of this is the result of prices determined in speculative markets that occur in Chicago Stock Exchange.
Given these facts and empirical evidence that thirty years of submission to such trade policies has led Mexico to deepen food dependence, Valdez Armentia proposed as a first point “subject to a comprehensive review of the agricultural chapter of NAFTA.” -TMEC, with the aim of correcting all those regulatory elements that have acted and continue to contradict manufacturers and national food production.” He also suggested that “Mexico must diversify its trade relationships and seek joint investment agreements with other countries around the world that form alternative groupings such as the group represented by BRICS, organized around Brazil, Russia, China and South Africa, whose total grain production represents 42% of world production and its commercialization is carried out outside the control of corporations manipulating prices on the Chicago Stock Exchange and other speculative centers.”
The second most important issue raised by the manufacturer of Sinaloan was “the need set national production targetsincorporating the full potential of large regions of the country into the needs of the national market and ensuring the fulfillment of such goals with universal guarantee pricing policy on essential grains, while restoring reasonable and relevant tariff mechanisms to prevent the continuation of unfair and harmful imports to national production and producers.”
What was raised by Baltasar Valdez Armentia on behalf of the National Front for the Salvation of the Mexican Countryside in a meeting called by the producers goes beyond the electoral situation in which Mexico finds itself, where the candidates have decided to go through reality. in parallel with serious problems that affect the economy and social life of the country. The demand that Mexico diversify its trade relations rather than putting all its eggs in the NAFTA-TMEC basket is also being considered by an important conglomerate of intellectuals and researchers, as well as prominent political figures such as Cuauhtémoc Cardenas Solórzanowho noted the importance of Mexico joining BRICS.
The reaction of Mexican producers to the consequences of commercial schemes that ignore national food production is a transatlantic feeling. It’s the same reason why European manufacturers in recent months they have been selling tractor-trailers, so manufacturers Germany They planned a whole week of blockade of Berlin, Tedeschi’s capital. This is an impressive mobilization of hundreds of tractors and other work tools that is attracting other manufacturing sectors and labor organizations. The claim is not limited to just immediate consequences, such as the removal of input subsidies; the claim is made against all economic scheme determined by the bureaucracy of the European Union. Equivalent to NAFTA-TMEC.
The mobilizations of German producers are supported by North American producers, who, in their messages of solidarity, complain of the same evil and accuse that “farmers around the world are facing manipulation of the agrofinancial complex of raw material conglomeratescontrolled by London, Wall Street, Chicago, Amsterdam and others…”
It can be seen that a global coalition is forming in defense of food production, capable of becoming one of the main axes that inspires the forces of nations to achieve an international economic and financial order that meets the most moral imperatives. – end hunger – build a world based on fair Tradein development, progress and technology; necessary support for lasting peace.
Ciudad Obregon, Sonora, January 11, 2024
Source: Aristegui Noticias
John Cameron is a journalist at The Nation View specializing in world news and current events, particularly in international politics and diplomacy. With expertise in international relations, he covers a range of topics including conflicts, politics and economic trends.
