Thursday, January 2, 2020

Effects Of The North American Free Trade Agreement

We have been seeing in class about the neoliberalism reform in Latin America through out the years and some of its implications it has had in this region. For my paper, I will go further into the effects that neoliberalism reform had in Mexico. My paper will focus on the effects the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) had specifically on Mexican workers, which will provide further information and understanding as to what has been presented in class. In January 1994, the NAFTA free trade deal was signed into effect by president Bill Clinton, Mexican president Carlos Salinas, and Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrà ©tien. The main purpose for this agreement was to make trading more efficient between these†¦show more content†¦McDonald explains how, under the neoliberal policies, farmers are expected by the government to compete with the global economy with little government intervention. (McDonald 321) Small and large farmers are faced with many problems that have to d o with globalizing Mexico’s economy. The dairy industry in Mexico is organized into a three-tiered production and process system and during this time each market level prices increased. This made farmers very upset since the price of milk was too low given the production cost. They also felt like that middleman were exploiting them because they were not getting paid for their work or being paid late. Many farmers started seeing their cows now not as a form of money but more of an expense. â€Å"Under NAFTA, Mexican dairy farmers faced rapid rural change in a highly competitive international market† (McDonald 323). Because of this rapid change, many of these farmers had to invest in regional dairy market corporative, resulting in cutting down middlemen and joining ventures. Which eventually started to leave many workers out of work. Guadalupe Rodriguez Gomez, who has a five-year period of fieldwork and historical research in Los Altos de Jalisco, examines the struggles dairy farmers have been enduring since the 1990s. He writes that farmers who were unable to produce and be efficient about it should stop farming and abandon

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