NAFTA's Impacts on Mexican Farmworker Communities

Farmworkers Journey - An Interview with author Ann Lopez

Thu Aug 30 2007

In an interview by Christina Aanestad, Dr. Ann Lopez discusses the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and it's impacts on farmers from West Central Mexico. In the interview, Dr. Lopez discusses the story of a 60 year old grandmother who risks asphyxiation to travel across the border to visit her "illegal immigrant" farmworker son. Dr. Lopez also talks about the struggles women migrant farmworkers face in Santa Cruz and Monterey Counties and how neoliberal trade policies often force Mexican farmworkers to migrate into California's corporate agricultural fields. Listen to the Interview

A full one hour interview about NAFTA's impacts on Mexican farmworker communities will be aired on KZYX in Mendocino County on Labor Day, Monday, September 3rd from 6-7pm.