On Jan. 1, 1994, the North American Free Trade Agreement, NAFTA, came into force.  On that day, 3,000 armed indigenous people from Mexico’s southernmost state, Chiapas, seized San Cristobal de las Casas and other towns, and fought a brief conflict with the Mexican Army which left at least 145 dead. The Zapatista Army of National … Continue reading Mexico after 20 years of NAFTA: poor and getting poorer