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January 28, 2008 Last Friday, four North American civil society networks -- Quixote Center (USA), Common Frontiers (Canada), Red Mexicana de Acción frente al Libre Comercio (Mexico), and Réseau québécois sur l’Intégration continentale (Quebec) -- released a statement called, "NAFTA must be renegotiated" at a press conference in Mexico City. "It is absolutely necessary to profoundly revise NAFTA beginning with those aspects that have proven most damaging for the human rights of our peoples and for the environment," wrote the coalition in its statement. "At the same time we reject the deepening of neo-liberal continental integration as promoted by the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP)." As part of the four-day 2008 World Social Forum the four networks organized a panel in Mexico City on the SPP, which packed the main tent on Friday evening. The event included a Bolivian expert on the Bolivian People's Trade Agreement who was able to contrast it (and the indigenous cosmo vision) to the type of neo-liberal indignities that people in North America suffer daily. This coming Thursday, Jan 31, a very large caravan of rural campesino and indigenous peoples will enter Mexico City for a major rally calling on the Calderon government to renegotiate the NAFTA Agriculture Chapter. Earlier last week, the Canadian Minister of Agriculture was in Mexico City and was quoted as saying that there is no need to open NAFTA up as all three countries feel that it is mostly working well. However the undersecretary for the Mexican Ministry of Agriculture said on the same day that NAFTA could indeed be opened up, but maybe not just yet. Agriculture and energy (i.e. the privatization of PEMEX) are the two hot trade-related topics in Mexico at the moment. Click here for the four networks' statement on renegotiating NAFTA. |
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