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What Noam Chomsky got right about NAFTA
Source: In These Times by staff
“On Jan. 1, 1994, the day the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) went into effect, the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (aka the Zapatistas) led an armed uprising in the Mexican state of Chiapas in protest. In our Feb. 21, 1994, cover story, ‘Time Bombs: Why the New Global Economy Will Trigger More Explosions Like Chiapas,’ Noam Chomsky predicted the deal would provoke more protests and a cascade of economic woes: ‘NAFTA is expected to drive large numbers of [Mexican] workers off the land, contributing to rural misery and a surplus of labor. The social and economic realities polarizing American society … have been carried another step forward by NAFTA. The concept of ‘efficiency,’ as defined by those of (...)