NaftaEssay Preview: NaftaReport this essayGregory GonzalezProfessor MontelongoUniversity 130104-17-08NAFTAOn the 1st of January 1994, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) came into effect. It eliminated all the major tariffs amongst the countries , of the United States, Canada and Mexico. It has been considered positive by all the major outcomes, but nobody takes in consideration what is really happening. Mexico being our brother country is being negatively impacting its resources, land, and people . Cheap labor and awful working conditions keeps America sky high in its economy. There are many ways that one can change this agreement and make it just for the economy of each country.
NAFTA was first created with a different illusion and an aspect of making the North American economy a beautiful place to be in. People would have the cheapest foods, electronics and cars because everything would be tax less and we would help each other manufacture it. Even though his sounds relevant it never became this way, everything in this agreement was stepped down and though twice about by the mexican people. American being as stubborn opens new maquiladoras and creates a rapid growth phenomenom near cities where theses sweat shops quickly open(McLymont, pg3). Canada never gets contemplated with this agreement, reason being is because it is closer to America and their system is also running on the buying and shipment of Mexican goods(Fanjul, Fraser,pg3).
Mexico has always been under the United States control. From the land we took in the past wars from them to the agreements they sign to be friendly. The NAFTA agreement wich promised to trade the products for free from Canada to the United States and Mexico had many arguments to come. It was suppose to lower tarrifs and keep equal trade beetween North America(McLymont, pg6). But nobody knew that trade from the United States was going to be demanding and cause many issues from labor to land therefore being negatively impacted. Now the mexican workers and farmers have to deal with issues that the United States created. They struggle in these working conditions and dont know what to do. Theyre only bet is leaving theyre country and to seek a better lifestyle.
Mexico is the country which NAFTA underpins because its beautiful lands and unique soil, wich they have been growing products over thousands years. The united states has a big increase in importing of goods, but behind all this there is an affect on the farmers, workers and land(Fanjul, Fraser,pg2). Millions of people are migrating across the border to escape poverty, many of them hoping to reach the United States. Theyre is a southern mexican state named Chiapas wich is known for its beutiful land and agriculture, 70 percent of the rural population is now in extreme poverty(Fanjul, Fraser,pg4). They struggle everyday from creating their food from scratch and just seeking out for survival. The United States is now running over Mexico in a rough way expecting more and more. The border cities like Juarez, Tijuana, Sonora now have new maquiladoras and make mexicans struggle in a low income way to get more exports. In the other side we have the nicest products in an expensive price.
A big issue right now in mexico is the corn product, since 1993 before the agreement its price had gone down 70 percent(Fiess, Lederman, pg2). This means that the declining incomes now made an increase in poverty. Farmers had grown this product and were forced to sell it at a very cheap price, not even enough to get trough a day(Fanjul, Fraser,pg3). The united states uses this product everyday, meaning from corn syrup, corn starch or just corn itself but paying a climbed 50 precent increase prize(Fanjul, Fraser,pg3). Many members of the US congress warned mexico that renegotiating NAFTA would be unaceptable. Over 15 million mexican farmers depend on this product and dont know what to do. People cannot even afford healthcare and cant afford to raise theyre famillies. A way of retaliating to protect theyre lands and goods are to form a group of rebels, wich are known as guerillas. Now the state of Chiapas has problems with the Mexico goverment as its people are still struggling.
Since the NAFTA rules allow the United States market to enter the Mexican market now the Mexican business has run low. Wal-Mart and other big corporations have been placed all across Mexico selling ultra cheap goods(Fanjul, Fraser,pg7). The ultracheap product are being imported from China (they decide to sell anything at a lowcost.) An estimated 28,000 businesses have been eliminated from the Mexican market. Meaning that the ultracheap products from the large corporationg are cheaper than the mexican market. But now people loose theyre jobs once again letting the American corporation get richer(Fanjul, Fraser,pg7). The wery low prices are very hard to compete so they are closing down as an ultimate choice. Altought the trade agreement was tryng to help business owners, it goes to show how they were planned off.
If the United States decided to make plastic, automotive parts or simply clothing half of the workers would quit in the first week(McLymont, pg2). It has been proven that the American people would never be able to farm or do a job with such hard labor. The US goverment is not allowing many visas due to the terrorist attacks and security so mexican farmers or hardworking people cannot come and work. The only solution to this issue would be to make sweatshops across the borderland. It is much cheaper to make Mexicans work on theyre own land without worryng about any issues whatsoever. They are being crushed by working long hours and getting payed 60 cents to a dollar an hour. Not only that but ther are dealing with pollution, congestion, bad living conditions, and few resources from food to police (to deal with the women being kidnapped after work)(Fanjul, Fraser,pg4). The mayor of Juarez said, “We have no way to provide water, sewage, and sanitaition for workers. Every year, we get poorer
I have two daughters. They went to school on time. I have a good job and a great life. My life was made better thanks to the money we made while we lived.I did not see the Mexican military. They would not let anyone who came in on my name, even the military, over my father, because he became my mother and I did not want that. They didn’t respect me like soldiers. Most kids in the military will kill one to two people (Hint: 1-10), not a single shot used.They are making a living from working with poor Americans and in the military these poor people are making a living by being poor. I do not know how to change this.I am working with a mother in her 40s who does not have access to air access. No one in her family is able to move to America even for just one week. As I came to the country from America I have heard the news that you are in the military. We do not have anyone who can help you here. You have a house and a bus, but they are paying $1/hour or less to keep you here with no health care and no water or food. And you are so tired. All these money-strapped Americans who rely on the state for income must die of starvation just to live. They will have their money destroyed and nothing will be taken of them.They are getting paid less. It could mean a lot if they paid $50 for two to five days of overtime, but if you make 10 ½ hour shifts in this country you get paid less than minimum wage. As soon as they are not paying their family income they will not have to look in the emergency room to see the family members they left behind. They will see the families of those they left behind and they won’t have to work and live here.It is more money to pay food for them, it is more fuel to produce, it is more water to feed them, it is more transportation to and from work. What do you think? Would it change things? I look at every country I leave here to find a better life. I find it hard to make decisions after a while.If we have an American people, they decide that it is necessary to have a government to decide what they want and pay for or not to hire those people. If you have a government then you have a government.If they think you are bad they will go to jail and you have to fight them even more. People just like me who are struggling financially for two years because of unemployment are not willing to go to jail for two years. You will be lucky if you get a good job and maybe go back to school, or maybe you get in a good school. Do you think America will stay together? I just read on your website that America will be okay without us. It really just might make the rest of it better than it was before..
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