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Public Hearing Transcripts - Western - Mt. Elgon - Rtjrc24.05 (Mt. Elgon County Council Hall) (Women's Hearing), Truth, Justice, And Reconciliation Commission May 2011

Public Hearing Transcripts - Western - Mt. Elgon - Rtjrc24.05 (Mt. Elgon County Council Hall) (Women's Hearing), Truth, Justice, And Reconciliation Commission

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An Environmental Justice Critique Of Comparative Advantage: Indigenous Peoples, Trade Policy, And The Mexican Neoliberal Economic Reforms, Carmen G. Gonzalez Jan 2011

An Environmental Justice Critique Of Comparative Advantage: Indigenous Peoples, Trade Policy, And The Mexican Neoliberal Economic Reforms, Carmen G. Gonzalez

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The free market reforms adopted by Mexico in the wake of the debt crisis of the 1980s and in connection with the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) have jeopardized the physical and cultural survival of Mexico’s indigenous peoples, increased migration to the United States, threatened biological diversity in Mexico, and imposed additional stress on the environment in the United States. Despite these negative impacts, NAFTA continues to serve as a template for trade agreements in the Americas. Unless this template is fundamentally restructured, future trade agreements may replicate throughout the Western hemisphere many of the economic, ecological and social …