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Subsidized corn
The problem is that Mexico's corn was subsidized before ADM and NAFTA came along. So that form of economic corruption was in place and ready to be expanded by outside forces, which is what happened.
I notice the following sentence in your essay: "As NAFTA opened the Mexican market to cheap, highly subsidized U.S. corn and dismantled Mexico's support for its farmers, . . ." So U.S. corn is subisdized while Mexico's corn is supported. But it comes down to the same thing. Mexico and the U.S. would be better served by unsubsidized, unsupported agriculture on both sides of the border. On How Mexico's iconic flatbread went industrial and lost its flavor posted 2 years, 8 months ago 13 Responses