American Thinker
Silvio Canto, Jr.
June 11, 2018
Do you think that NAFTA is controversial in the U.S.? Let me tell you that it's pretty controversial in Mexico.
On the surface, Mexico looks rather modern, from U.S.-style shopping centers full of imported goods to chain restaurants familiar to us up here. Spend a night with a Mexican middle-class family and you will see teenagers texting, mom ordering pizza on line, or dad taking an Uber from the airport. And then there is a movie on Netflix. Honestly, you feel like you could be in a U.S. home.
Outside of the major cities, the situation is different. This is because NAFTA has hit Mexican farmers rather hard, as Kimberly Amadeo wrote:
Thanks to NAFTA, Mexico lost 1.3 million farm jobs. More...
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/06/a_nafta_story_that_we_dont_hear_up_here.htmlhttps://www.thebalance.com/disadvantages-of-nafta-3306273
