Manuel Pérez-Rocha

U.S. and Canadian civil society groups are denouncing their own governments’ efforts, driven by the agribusiness industry, to repeal Mexico’s proposed ban on genetically modified corn.

While claiming to support social and environmental goals, leaders failed to challenge the excessive corporate powers that undermine those objectives.

Climate activists are demanding total elimination of the anti-democratic investor-state dispute settlement system.

A Mexican fair trade activist reflects on the past two decades of battles against neoliberalism and for a more just and equitable alternative in the Americas.