USMCA Review Needs to Include More Than Just Corporate Interests
Mexican social and civil organizations are striving to present alternatives to free trade within the framework of the current USMCA review. However, they are not listened to by our own government, nor are they even received. In contrast, every time Trump opens his mouth, he unsettles, insults, and confuses his friends and enemies about who they truly are. He knows he doesn’t need much trickery to create a distraction. He is the distraction. He has resorted to extreme measures. As Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said, “The old international order is over.”
Indeed, Trump is shaking off cumbersome rules for the American plutocracy and severing ties with every democratic multilateral institution, be it the UN or international agreements like the Paris Convention. He is, in effect, setting in motion a full-throttle neoliberalism. Meanwhile, the United States’ role and interests in the global capitalist financial system remain intact; Trump has not seriously threatened to withdraw from or dismantle the Bretton Woods system (IMF, World Bank), for example.
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