WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Dear Brigade, "Where are the trickle down, wondrous $$$$ benefits of NAFTA going? The profits are going somewhere, but not to the laboring class in Mexico, who continue to be just as exploited as workers in other Third World countries. NAFTA has had six years to improve the plight of the Mexican working class and has failed abysmally....." GO PAT GO!!!!!!!!!!!!! Linda BUCHANAN-FOSTER 2000! ---------- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date sent: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 23:14:53 EDT Subject: op-ed: THE FOX IN THE HEN HOUSE To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] op-ed by Natalie M. Warford - 7051 E. McDonald Drive - Scottsdale, AZ 85253 THE FOX IN THE HEN HOUSE There is an old, tired acceptance speech that has been read to the Mexican people by every incoming Mexican president since I can remember; since Echeveria left office as the richest man in the world. Each man has promised to clean up the corruption, make honest men out of the police, crack down on the drug lords and guarantee that the poor Mexican laborer would find a pot of gold waiting for him through the goodness of the heart of the new rainbow maker president. On July 2, Vicente Fox dragged out that poor old, beat up piece of paper and read it all over again to the Mexican people to renew their faith that he, the new man, would relieve their starving condition; that it was fate, not corruption, that rendered their lives so hopeless. We too might hope for a change with the end of a 71 year reign of unchecked raids on the Mexican treasury by the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and the victory of the National Action Party (PAN), Fox's party. But whoa there; Fox and the outgoing PRI president are locked in a loving embrace with other banner carrying PRIs waiting in line to love him up too. This is what Fox had promised, what he called a "smooth" transition. "He is going to do away with the bad governments, the narco-politicians, dishonest people," said an eternal optimist, a 60 year old hotel administrator, according to the Mexico City News (7/13/00). This man had a poor memory or he'd have remembered being handed that line before. Today we read in the L. A. Times (8/21/00) that Vicente Fox is visiting Washington this week to put pressure on the United States to open its southern border to all Mexican people and allow its trucks free passage too. Fox is also expected to boldly propose a "democracy premium" of billions of dollars in U. S. Aid. Our newspapers don't tell us the real story. According to clippings recently received from an American friend living in Mexico, the level of poverty there has grown to 83% between 1997 and 1999; of that number, 31% live in extreme poverty on 9 - 17 pesos ( 90 cents - $1.70 per day). The Mexican paper informs that improvement for the laboring class in the foreseeable future is "nulo" (nil). The article further states that the effects of globalization have been disastrous, resulting in the descent to 15 on the world poverty scale, and to fourth on the Latin American scale. The Mexican laborer, due to a 20% unemployment rate, sees his wage level drop to whatever he can get, or consider himself unemployed (EL Financiero, Mexican edition, 1/11/00). Paradoxically, Mexican exports grew at a rate of 28.1% in November, 1999 and maquilladoras grew at a rate of 30.5%. The best wages of about $6.00 a day are earned in the maquilladoras as compared to the minimum hourly wage in the U. S. Employment in a maquilladora is often the last step before illegal entry into the U. S. Where are the trickle down, wondrous $$$$ benefits of NAFTA going? The profits are going somewhere, but not to the laboring class in Mexico, who continue to be just as exploited as workers in other Third World countries. NAFTA has had six years to improve the plight of the Mexican working class and has failed abysmally. On the other hand, it has helped multinational corporations and Mexican politicos rake in unheard of profits. What is needed is an ethics control to curb these excessive and inhumane appetites. And so, Vicente Fox will propose that, in order to alleviate the extreme poverty problem in his country, we must allow his poor to enter our country freely, and not only that, we must make up for the misery his people have endured, brought down upon them by his own country and our gone south corporations. Mr. Fox, go home and clean up your dirty hen house in Mexico City. Take care of your poor people. They need YOU. See what you can do for them on your own. And maybe, if you can't coerce the multinational corporations freely partaking of the slave Mexican labor to play fair, you should give them an attitude adjustment or kick them out. 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