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Mexican cuisine combines traditional indigenous ingredients as well as ingredients imported from Europe:- Corn, beans and chillies are the most well-known Mexican ingredients, and all have been part of the Mexican diet for thousands of years.
Mexican farmers have taken to the streets of Mexico-City to protest the recent lifting of trade barriers that removed the last protections for ancestral Mexican crops like corn.
MEXICO CITY — Tens of thousands of farmers clogged the streets of the capital on Thursday to protest the end of tariffs on corn from the United States, warning that the elimination of trade barriers could drive them out of business and lead more Mexicans to migrate north.
Hundreds of thousands of farmers clogged central Mexico City Thursday with their slow-moving tractors, protesting the entry of cheap imported corn from the United States and Canada. -- Maybe now they can relate to auto / industrial workers back here in the US.
The last tariffs on U.S. produce end, raising fears of a glut of cheap corn and beans wiping out local agriculture.Corn and beans are staples of the Mexican diet and subsistence crops for millions of farmers. Opponents of NAFTA said the free entry of relatively cheap U.S. corn would devastate rural Mexico and help spur more immigration.
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