> From: "Barry B. Bean" <bbbean@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> I'd question the reasonableness of an argument that suggests
> Mexican poverty has more to do with US grain prices than it does
> with the Mexican government.
Barry, in one breath, you cast aspersions on my credibility due to
what you perceive as my lack of knowledge about global commodities,
then in the next breath, you imply that global commodity markets have
little to do with poverty in some other country.
NAFTA has made local farming non-competitive in Mexico, not the
Mexican government. In fact, under NAFTA, the Mexican government is
powerless to reduce the harmful impact to local farmers of cheap US
grain, which I continue to assert is directly the result of cheap US
energy.
Which is it, does Mexico fall within a global commodity market for
corn, or does it not?
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