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Small farmers
face the extinction of their livelihoods. CAFTA would likely force
migration of erstwhile farmers to large urban areas to work in the informal
sector or maquilas (factories), or to risk the long journey through Mexico
to seek work in the US. See also
Oxfam America
Report:
www.oxfamamerica.org/pdfs/cafta_090303.pdf Zapatista rebels had symbolically raided 4 towns in Chiapas in 1994 at the signing of NAFTA which helps the consumer and hurts the farmer. Hunger makes revolution, as everyone knows. The Central American countries are, practically speaking, WITHOUT INDUSTRIAL SKILLS, nor many natural resources. Therefore, emigration is being forced on these people as the only alternative to revolution. Revolution trades new faces for old ones, nothing else. Ripping off the forests is a typical last resort of nomadic overpopulation. Inequalities in land tenure are a real problem. Do Colombian migrants and more from Ecuador enter the jungle trails of Panama? |