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Manufacturing a Food Crisis
by Walden Bello
Tuesday, Jul. 01, 2008 at 2:41 PM
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Tens of thousands of people staged demonstrations in Mexico last year to protest a 60% increase in the price of tortillas.
How on earth did Mexicans, who live in the land where corn was domesticated, become dependent on US exports in the first place?
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