The rally is organized by the Francisco "Pancho" Villa Farmers Resistance Movement and has received the support of other regional movements that have joined the project. Meetings are being organized by demonstrators to explain the serious implications of the treaty's neoliberal model to the public.
At the beginning of the initiative, organizers issued a public message denouncing NAFTA and the agriculture and trade policy established in 1982, arguing that the opening of the Mexican border and the eliminatin of tarrifs on products with which national producers can not compete constitute a war against farmers and indigenous agriculture. Each US agriculture worker is "subsidized by the US government with more than US $20,000 a year, while some Mexicans (those who are privileged enough) receive 700 dollars from the hands of corrupted politicians."
The treaty therefore facilitates an average annual deficit of US $2 billion in the country's agricultural exports and an increase in the dependency of the food imported free of taxes.
Significance: So now NAFTA is adding to the immigration problem. If the Mexican agriculture industry falls through the Mexican government is going to have a lot larger problems than just some angry farmers.
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