Nevertheless, Mexico still has considerable restrictions on foreign intervention in its economy. US corporations want to reproduce the maquiladoras model throughout Mexico. Between 1980 and 1988, the number of automobiles exported from Mexico increased from 18,000 to 173,000. Auto and petroleum are just two industries which will vastly increase the amount of toxic wastes in Mexico. The result will be a massive poisoning of the Mexican people.
Greens have a different approach.
Greens believe that people themselves, through their elected workplace and community representatives, should decide what to produce and how to do it. Citizens of the US, Mexico, and Canada should control our own economic destinies. We must remove power from multinational corporations and create true economic democracy.