International Trade

President Trump is extremely unpopular in Mexico, but his crusade against the trade pact might benefit workers south of the border.

Renegotiation should address the trade deal’s impact in Mexico, where it has devastated the rural sector while creating huge opportunities for wealthy oligarchs like Carlos Slim.

When agribusiness corporations export food at artificially low prices, they widen the economic divide between the global North and South — and within rural America.