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So is Mexico so eager to open talks with the U.S. on NAFTA if it was “the worst deal ever approved” by Washington? A deal that was helping Mexico get one over on their neighbors to the north. The answer likely has something to do with the devastation that neoliberal “free trade” brings with it wherever it goes.  Like most countries before they embraced neoliberalism, Mexico before NAFTA was once home to a diverse and robust domestic agricultural sector, less reliant on imported food and...

Backgrounder. Short. Immanuel WallersteinTwo Cheers for Mexico’s AMLO: A Great Victory for the Left Immanuel Wallerstein | Senior Research Scholar, Yale University, formerly a professor of sociology