Worker-farmer protests rock Mexico
Author: Emile Schepers
People's Weekly World Newspaper, 02/05/09 14:49
A major event took place just across our border, but few U.S. media took note of it: Hundreds of thousands of workers and farmers marched through the streets of Mexico City and other Mexican cities and towns Jan. 30, demanding that their government deal with the growing economic crisis.
Mexican economy reacts drastically to economic disruption north of its border, especially as 80 percent of Mexico’s exports are to the USA.
Mexico’s industrial production dropped 3.8 percent in the last quarter of 2008, and manufacturing exports dropped 8 percent. Income from the key petroleum industry has dropped a mind-boggling 42.3 percent, mostly because of the drop in world oil prices. Yet farmers and truckers complain that the price of diesel fuel keeps rising.
“The bankers and businessmen, in complicity with the governments, are those who are breaking the world economy,”
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