U.S. Activists versus Mexican Leaders Karen Hansen-Kuhn of the U.S.-based Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP), a gadfly anti-trade group, says that the new USMCA agreement to update NAFTA will shaft Mexican agriculture. The charge is notable because this was not a concern listed by Jesús Seade, Mexican President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO’s) chief NAFTA negotiator. Instead, Seade boasts that USMCA’s provisions on labor and an anti-corruption environment are exactly what AMLO wants. Moreover, Seade says that the small and medium-sized enterprises provisions, of which farms must be a part, will be very positive. Perhaps surprising to some, the incoming government in Mexico b...

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