FRIDAY, JANUARY 5
PROGRAM # 8237 12:00 PM PT
Mexico Edition.
Although farmers’ organizations of Mexico say they are dissatisfied with the agricultural policies that, in 24 years of Free Trade Agreement, have reduced by almost 50 percent the agricultural production of the country, in fact, its leaders have not organized to force the government to support the small growers of the country, says guest Francisco Jiménez Pablo. The agrarian leader said that for the presidential elections of 2018, the vote of the farmers will be divided between the parties: PRI, PRD, and Morena. Confronting this reality, he thinks that the most important action will be to strengthen the different social movements, because only by really pressing the leaders will positive changes be achieved for Mexicans. For his part, political analyst Luis Hernández Navarro says he gets hope in the fact that an indigenous candidate could participate in these elections. Also in this edition, it is reported that for the second consecutive year the prices of gasoline, gas, and diesel have risen, causing increases in basic products such as eggs and tortillas. Although there is opposition to these economic measures, mass protests, such as those in 2017, have not happened. Martha Elena Ramírez hosts this broadcast of the Voz Pública program, from Mexico City.
Guests: Francisco Jiménez Pablo, leader of la Coordinadora Nacional Plan de Ayala, and Founder of the Movimiento Campesino Regional Independiente (Mocri); (audio cuts) priest Alejandro Solalinde Guerra, director of migrant shelter Hermanos en el Camino, Ixtepec, Oaxaca; Luis Hernández Navarro, opinión director, La Jornada newspaper; music from Voz en punto (audio cut).
Photo: Gobierno de la Ciudad de México/Facebook
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