Zapata's revenge : free trade and the farm crisis in Mexico

by Tom Barry

Paper Book, 1995

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Available

Publication

Boston, Mass. : South End Press, 1995.

Description

Tom Barry views the crises that confront Mexico as alarming evidence of the incapacity of today's neoliberal and free trade policies to foster broad economic development. He explains that such strategies have resulted in reduced food security, environmental destruction, increased rural-urban polarization, depopulation of peasant communities, and social and political instability. This book offers personal interviews, investigative research, and analysis that goes to the heart of the development challenge faced by Mexico and other Latin American nations.

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LibraryThing member anne_fitzgerald
An interpretaion of one of Mexico's most serious economic issues, subsistence agriculture and the impact of the domestic and international market, and its relationship to political violence in Southern Mexico.

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