David L. Wilson, author, with Jane Guskin, of The Politics of Immigration: Questions and Answers (2nd Edition), looks at NAFTA, and why it’s back in the news:
“The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) went into effect at midnight on January 1, 1994. That night, thousands of Indigenous Mayans rose up in arms in the southeastern Mexican state of Chiapas, seizing at least five towns and declaring NAFTA a ‘death certificate’ for people like themselves. This was just the beginning of Mexico’s troubles in a year that brought countless protests, hotly disputed elections and the assassinations of two of the then-ruling party’s leaders. 1994 ended with a sudden devaluation of the peso, the start of an economic collapse from which the country didn’t recover fully for years….”
Read David’s article at Truthout
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