[forester]

Re: post #29, and a comment somewhere else in the thread about removing 5 million compesinos (sp?) from rural mexico. In the course of your research into this, have the displaced rural people leaving Mexico told you anything that indicates that this is what is really going on?

[FITZ]

For one their irrigation water in many places was diverted to the maquilas, they are watching their farms wither away and the government has supported measures to destroy the farmers. You can see first hand what were once very fertile farmlands outside Ciudad Juarez that are now dried up ---and yet just on the American side the farmlands are still green ---irrigation was always necessary but the Mexican government decided to send the water to the maquilas instead. The article Guerra Contra El Campo explains Salinas's goals and Fox is certainly continuing with them. Fox even went so far as to brag about the "survival kits" his government was preparing for the Mexicans leaving to the US.