NAFTA's Untold Stories:
Mexico's Grassroots Responses to North American Integration
An Americas Program Policy Report
(Silver City, NM, Interhemispheric Resource Center, June 10, 2003)
http://www.americaspolicy.org

By Timothy A. Wise | June 10, 2003

When the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) passed in 1993, Mexico was free trade's poster child--the model for a globalizing world. A decade later, Mexico's smiling face no longer shines from those posters. Instead, the images are of angry farmers protesting U.S. grain exports, the unemployed selling goods on the street, maquiladora workers demanding basic labor rights, and indigenous communities marching for respect and a route out of poverty.

In this Policy Report for the Americas Program of the Interhemispheric Resource Center, GDAE’s Timothy A. Wise presents some of the policy implications of his collaborative research project on Mexicans’ experience with economic integration. The report is based on the book, Confronting Globalization: Economic Integration and Popular Resistance in Mexico (Kumarian Press, 2003; and Editorial Miguel Angel Porrua, 2003).

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