Reply #9: A tidal wave of disaster entered for Mexican agricultural workers, the farm owner/operators, [View All]

and their employees when, through CAFTA and new free trade agreement additions, the corn they had traditionally grown in Mexico for CENTURIES, being farmed by the same families for many, many generations suddenly went bankrupt as the U.S. taxpayer-subsidized corn started flooding Mexican markets, making the very process of trying to grow and sell corn impossible, as it was shown to them quickly they couldn't afford to stay in business, since the American product was able to sell at a much lower price.

Suddenly growing corn was a losing proposition. They lost their farms, their homes, and were without work.

The problem has expanded, since new provisions have been added and now American BEANS and American RICE are flooding Mexico, and putting THOSE people out of work.

Before the corn disaster happened to them, the U.S. took out their sugar cane producers with the sugar cane, grown at an incredible price in subsidies from the U.S. taxpayers, by the sugar cane plantations in South Florida, dominated by the Cuban "exile" sugar baron family, the "Fanjuls."