{"id":8590,"date":"2003-02-22T12:18:25","date_gmt":"2003-02-22T17:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2003\/02\/22\/that-great-sucking-sound-of-jobs-going-to-the-us\/"},"modified":"2003-02-22T12:18:25","modified_gmt":"2003-02-22T17:18:25","slug":"that-great-sucking-sound-of-jobs-going-to-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2003\/02\/that-great-sucking-sound-of-jobs-going-to-the-us\/","title":{"rendered":"That great sucking sound of jobs going to the US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#3333FF\">Thousands of Mexican farmers are facing an agricultural<br \/>\ncrisis, and it&#8217;s not a drought or lack of sufficient farm hands. Scores of growers,<br \/>\nmany in Sonora, say they&#8217;re being forced out of business because of the North<br \/>\nAmerican Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Many claim NAFTA is allowing U.S. farm<br \/>\ngoods to flood the Mexican market. Many small Mexican farmers say they just<br \/>\ncan&#8217;t compete.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#3333FF\">Most Mexican Farmers News 13 spoke to around Hermosillo,<br \/>\nSonora still till small plots of land with donkeys, and follow ancient traditions<br \/>\nsuch as sowing seeds barefoot. However, since NAFTA went into effect in 1994,<br \/>\nthousands have been forced out of work because growers can&#8217;t compete with U.S.<br \/>\nproducts spurred by advanced machinery, infrastructure, and ultimately in price.<\/font><br \/>\n[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kold.com\/Global\/story.asp?S=1128310&amp;nav=14RTDxgH\">Full<br \/>\nStory<\/a>] <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of Mexican farmers are facing an agricultural crisis, and it&#8217;s not a drought or lack of sufficient farm hands. Scores of growers, many in Sonora, say they&#8217;re being forced&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}