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Article: North American Free Trade Agreement's Promises Are Empty, Mexican Workers Say.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
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- August 17, 2003
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By Susan Ferriss, The Palm Beach Post, Fla. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Aug. 17--SAN GABRIEL CHILAC, Mexico--In this tiny southern Mexican town that seems a million miles from nowhere, Ponciano Garmendia is searching for what economists call his comparative advantage in the global economy.
With wooden plows and oxen, Garmendia cultivates a native strain of corn he once easily sold to Mexico City markets because of its distinctive taste.
But sales have soured. Garmendia can't compete with cheaper hybrid corn flooding the market from bigger northern Mexican growers. They, in turn, are challenged by U.S. imports.
Garmendia ...