“What to do in the face of this devastating and overwhelming global reality?
With organization, desire for life, scientific bases and looking to the past to imagine the future, the Zapatistas take new steps in their organizational process, one that continues to be a reference for the world. They invite us to think the unthinkable: a world without capitalism.”
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“The year 2024 represented the corroboration that in Mexico environmental issues were not a priority for the government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador.”
Words, it turns out, did not result in action. And while the new administration looks more promising on paper, the budgets for 2025 do not herald a change.
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The profusion of studies, data and evidence, of technical and scientific aspects that are indispensable to understand the effects of GM corn on human health and the environment is surprising. Equally surprising is the number of references to all kinds of publications, pages, journals, which show the level of detail that is included and considered in the dossier.”
But the United States will disqualify as unscientific everything that does not suit it. It’s like Humpty Dumpty says to Alice in Through the Looking Glass, it doesn’t matter what is said, what matters is to know who’s in charge.
Abusive Intergovernmental Panel Ruling on Corn and TMEC (USMCA) READ MORE »
Staring down the barrel of the New Trump Imperialism, Mexico’s dependency on the U.S. for basic foodstuffs comes into sharp focus. With little support for national agricultural production, the fate of the Mexican countryside and campesino livelihoods becomes increasingly precarious. This does not bode well for Mexico as a whole. Sin Maiz, No Hay País
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Regardless of what is being claimed, there is no food sovereignty in Mexico. According to Via Campesina, food sovereignty is the right of people to produce their food, in their territory, in a way that reinforces their cultural values and the environment. It should ensure that peasants, family farmers and rural women have the resources they need to produce food, have greater access to and control over land, seeds, water, credit and markets (https://shorturl.at/frdGC). None of that is happening here. To begin with, more than half of the basic grains consumed by the population are imported. The combined action of
