Mexico Program in the News
July 31, 2008
Democracy Now!
Plan Mexico and the US-Funded Militarization of Mexico
Listen to Democracy Now's War and Peace report featuring John Gibler on the US role in Mexico's growing drug war.
July 3, 2008
Ted Lewis
The Mercury News
Trade deals' effect on U.S. immigration a problem for McCain
This week John McCain is visiting Mexico and Colombia to burnish his foreign policy credentials by meeting with top Bush administration allies, Presidents Álvaro Uribe of Colombia and Felipe Calderón of Mexico.
May 2, 2008
Dr. Gabriela D. Lemus and Hector E. Sanchez
Huffingtonpost
North American trade deal has not helped Mexico's poor
On May 1, 2006 millions of immigrants and their supporters took to the streets in 140 cities in 39 states across the United States as part of a wave of mass marches that spring in repudiation of extreme anti-immigrant legislation, passed by Republicans in the House of Representatives.
May 1, 2008
Ted Lewis
Global Exchange
North American trade deal has not helped Mexico's poor
The spirited defense of the North American Free Trade Agreement by President Bush and his Mexican counterpart in New Orleans recently ignored an inconvenient fact — the annual number of undocumented immigrants arriving in the USA from Mexico has risen dramatically since that trade agreement's inception.
April 21, 2008
Ted Lewis
Global Exchange
Statement on the Security & Prosperity Summit in New Orleans
President Bush is meeting this week with his Mexican and Canadian counterparts for the fourth summit of the North American Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP), which has become known as 'NAFTA-plus'.
March 29, 2008
Dr. Gabriela Lemus & Hector E. Sanchez
Common Dreams
Forming a More Perfect Union: Beyond Black and White
Barack Obama's complex meditation on race in America opened a window for national reflection. Irrespective of how it impacts his quest for the presidency, his words became a catalyst in moving us to think about where we fit in the effort to narrow the gap between the ideals embodied in the U.S. Constitution and the realities we live in today.
March 11, 2008
Featuring Global Exchange's Speaking Tour
The Brown Daily Herald
Speakers attack NAFTA at 'Better Neighbors' event
Speakers attacked the North American Free Trade Agreement at a panel held at the Kassar-Foxboro Auditorium Monday night, saying it and other international pacts are good for corporations, destructive to workers and promote American hegemony over its neighbors.
March 11, 2008
Featuring: Ted Lewis
San Diego SignOn Radio
Op-Ed Talk by Bernie Sanders
Listen to Ted Lewis discuss on SignOn Radio NAFTA's failure to create sustainable development in Mexico and its importance in the presidential race.
March 5, 2008
Featuring Global Exchange's Speaking Tour
The Reading Eagle
Trade pact blasted at forum in Reading
Poverty increased, corporations profited and jobs were lost, boosting immigration to the U.S. after the North American Free Trade Agreement, three speakers say.
February 29, 2008
Ted Lewis
The San Diego Union-Tribune
Linking NAFTA and immigration
As Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama slug out the Ohio round of their Democratic primary fight, the issue of NAFTA has returned to the center of debate, revealing deep, unresolved tension in the Democratic Party 15 years after the passage of the landmark trade agreement.
February 19, 2008
Appearing: Ted Lewis
Link TV, Latin Pulse
U.S.-Latin American Relations
See Global Exchange Human Rights Director Ted Lewis and Associate Fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies Manuel Perez Rocha on Link TV discuss migration push factors, FTAs in Latin America, and how these issues are and are not being addressed by US presidential candidates.
January 4, 2008
Hector Sánchez
The Economist
Cooking up a row
SIR- Your article on immigration in the United States argued that "no country should have 12m people living illegally within its borders". But nowhere in the article do you examine the root causes of the "problem" or the economics of migration.
November 10, 2007
Hector Sánchez
The Washington Post
Fighting the Drug Traffic From Mexico
I am a Mexican citizen troubled by The Post's unreserved editorial support for the Mérida Initiative, a plan to give $1.4 billion in U.S. military aid to the Mexican government over the next three years to support President Felipe Calderón's fight against narcotics traffickers.
November 9, 2007
Hector Sánchez
Free Speech Radio News
Newscast: US passes Peru Free Trade Agreement, min. 13.
Listen to Hector Sánchez speak on how the passage of the Peru FTA is an expansion of the failing NAFTA model and the need to standardize international labor rights over corporate profit.
August 20, 2007
Ted Lewis
The San Francisco Chronicle
Three Amigos summit takes up the future of North America
In recent weeks, voters have forced candidates for the Democratic and Republican presidential nominations to address America's economic relationship with Mexico and Canada and the entwined issues of trade and immigration.
May 14, 2007
Appearing: Ted Lewis
Link TV, Latin Pulse
Immigration, Borders