News From the Border

Providing the news from a different front but from a war that we must win as well! I recognize the poverty and desperate conditions that many Latinos live in. We, as the USA, have a responsibility to do as much as we can to reach out to aid and assist spiritually with the Gospel and naturally with training, technology and resources. But poverty gives no one the right to break the laws of another sovereign nation.

Wednesday, January 02, 2008

Mexicans block bridge in protest

About 1,000 people march on Mexico-U.S span to voice anger over NAFTA deal.

By Andres R. Martinez | Of Bloomberg News

January 2, 2008

Mexican protesters blocked all but one lane of the bridge linking Ciudad Juarez and El Paso, Texas, Tuesday to protest the opening of Mexico's market to U.S. corn and sugar as part of the North American Free Trade Agreement.

About 1,000 people have walked to the halfway point of the Cordoba Bridge since a minute past midnight, said Carlos Ramos, a spokesman for one of the organizing groups. Farmers and supporters held protests all across Mexico Tuesday as tariffs on sugar, corn, milk and beans were lifted.

The protesters, who argue Mexico hasn't done enough to protect them from cheaper U.S. commodities, may block the bridge until today, said Enrique Perez, spokesman for the National Association of Commercial Field Producers.

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