THERE HAVE BEEN A NUMBER OF HUGE PROTESTS IN MEXICO AFTER GAS
PRICES SOARED OVER MORE THAN 20%.
THIS HAPPENED AFTER THE PRESIDENT OF MEXICO DECIDED
TO DEREGULATE THE GAS WITHIN THE COUNTRY.
PREVIOUSLY, IT WAS NATIONALLY OWNED, AND ESSENTIALLY WHAT
THE GOVERNMENT WOULD DO IS CONTROL GAS PRICES BY
SETTING THE PRICE PEOPLE WOULD PAY FOR IT.
HE DEREGULATED IT, ALLOWING OTHER GAS COMPANIES TO COME
IN AND BE PART OF THE MARKET, AND OF COURSE PRICES SOARED 20%.
THE PROTESTS HAVE GOTTEN OUT OF CONTROL ñ SOME OF THEM ARE
PEACEFUL ñ BUT SOME OF THEM HAVE GOTTEN VIOLENT.
AND IT'S NOT JUST BECAUSE OF THE GAS PRICES, IT'S A NUMBER
OF THINGS, AND THE GAS PRICES ESSENTIALLY SERVED AS THE
STRAW THAT BROKE THE CAMELS BACK.
THINGS STARTED GETTING REALLY BAD AFTER 43 STUDENTS WERE
KIDNAPPED IN MEXICO IN 2014, AND IT TURNS OUT THAT THE CARTELS
KIDNAPPED THE STUDENTS, ALONG WITH GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS.
THEY HAVE A CORRUPT SYSTEM THERE WERE GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS
AND CARTEL ARE WORKING TOGETHER.
ALSO, THERE HAVE BEEN SOME ISSUES WITH NAFTA, SOME OF
THE UNINTENDED NEGATIVE THOUGHTS WINCES ON THE ECONOMY OF
MEXICO, AND THE INFLATION IS THROUGH THE WILL ñ THROUGH THE
ROOF, AND OBVIOUSLY WAGES ARE NOT KEEPING UP WITH INFLATION.
TO GIVE YOU MORE DETAILS ON THIS PROTEST, THE BORDER OF MEXICO
AND SAN DIEGO BASICALLY SHUT DOWN SEVERAL TIMES OVER THE LAST
FEW WEEKS, AND WE HAVE A VIDEO FOR YOU FROM ROSARITO.
I WANT TO WARN YOU THAT IT IS A VERY DIFFICULT VIDEO TO WATCH.
A LOT OF CITIZENS ARE VERY ANGRY WITH POLICE OFFICIALS, AND
IN THIS VIDEO YOU SEE AN INDIVIDUAL IN A CAR RUNNING
OVER A GROUP OF POLICE.
IT'S GRAPHIC, IT'S DIFFICULT TO WATCH, AND I WANT TO GIVE
YOU THAT WARNING BEFORE WE TAKE A LOOK.
LET'S GO.
YEAH, THAT'S TERRIBLE.
SO, LOOK, A LOT OF THE PROTESTERS ARE PEACEFUL, AND
THEY SAY A LOT OF THE VIOLENCE COMES FROM AGITATORS THAT ARE
BROUGHT IN BY THE GOVERNMENT TO CAUSE THE VIOLENCE.
NOW, HAVING SAID THAT, THAT VIDEO SEEMS PRETTY CLEAR,
UNLESS THEY CAN PROVE SOMEHOW THAT THAT GUY WAS AN AGITATOR.
WELL IT'S INTERESTING, BECAUSE THAT GUY STILL ñ
THAT PERSON IS STILL ON THE LOOSE.
I JUST FEEL LIKE SOMEONE WHO RUNS OVER A GROUP OF COPS
LIKE THAT WOULD GET CAUGHT RELATIVELY QUICKLY.
WE HAVE NO IDEA.
I DON'T KNOW, BUT THE PROTESTERS ARE CLAIMING IT'S AN AGITATOR,
OBVIOUSLY THE AUTHORITIES ARE SAYING THAT'S NOT THE CASE, BUT
REGARDLESS, THAT'S A VERY SMALL PART OF WHAT IS A MUCH
BIGGER PROBLEM IN THE COUNTRY RIGHT NOW.
AND ONE OF THE BIGGEST ISSUES IS THAT INTERNATIONALLY PEOPLE
THINK IT IS OVER ONE ISSUE, BUT IT IS OVER SO MANY ISSUES THAT
COUNTRIES LIKE THE UNITED STATES ACTUALLY PLAYED A ROLE IN,
INCLUDING THINGS LIKE NAFTA.
YOU KNOW, BECAUSE OF OUR CHEAP CORN, NAFTA LED TO A LOT OF WARM
FARMERS IN MEXICO ESSENTIALLY NOT HAVING AN INCOME ANYMORE.
WHICH IS INTERESTING, BECAUSE WE ALWAYS PLAY THIS NARRATIVE OF,
MEXICO TAKING OUR JOBS, BUT IN THAT CASE IT WAS U.S. SUBSIDIES
MAKING AMERICAN CORN CHEAPER THAN MEXICAN CORN.
I WANT TO GIVE YOU GUYS THE CONTEXT OF HOW THINGS ARE GOING.
THERE'S BEEN 400 ARRESTS, 250 LOOTED STORES.
NOW, I CAN IMAGINE IT WAS ALL AGITATORS.
PEOPLE ARE MAD, AND THEY ARE DOING SOME THINGS THEY SHOULDN'T
DO, BUT THERE IS GREAT FRUSTRATION IN THE COUNTRY,
BECAUSE IT HAS BECOME IN ESSENCE A NARCOS STATES.
WHEN THE GOVERNMENT WORKS TOGETHER WITH THE DRUG LORDS,
FOR EXAMPLE, KIDNAPPING AND KILLING THOSE 42 STUDENTS, AND
NOW SOME OF THOSE OFFICIALS ARE IN JAIL, BECAUSE THERE WAS AT AN
ENORMOUS OUTCRY FROM THAT ACROSS MEXICO.
BUT NOW WHEN YOU GET THEM NAFTA, LOOK AT ñ
NOW WHEN YOU GET TO NAFTA, LOOK AT ALL THE DOMINOES.
OUR SUBSIDIES, AS JAYDE POINTED OUT, DROVE THE MEXICAN
FARMERS OUT OF BUSINESS.
AND I WAS AN ENORMOUS PART OF THE MEXICAN INFRASTRUCTURE AND
INDUSTRY, SO THEY THEN, SINCE THEY DON'T HAVE A JOB, HAVE TWO
CHOICES: ONE, YOU GO WORK AT THE PLANTS, WHICH NOW RELOCATED FROM
AMERICA TO MEXICO, BUT THAT IS BACKBREAKING WORK FOR VERY LOW
WAGES.
AND IF YOU COMPLAIN ABOUT THAT, THEY UNLEASH THE COPS ON YOU,
AND THAT'S WHY THERE'S SO MUCH ANGER AT THE COPS AS WELL ñ
PARTLY BECAUSE OF THE NARCO STATE, BUT PARTLY BECAUSE THEY
ARE PROJECTING WHAT THEY VIEW AS IMPERIALISM.
SO TO GIVE YOU THE SENSE OF WAGES IN MEXICO ñ OUR MINIMUM
WAGE HERE IN AMERICA IS $7.25 AN HOUR.
AND THAT IS WAY TOO LOW.
IN MEXICO, IT IS FOUR DOLLARS A DAY.
NOT AN HOUR, A DAY.
TO PUT THAT IN ñ TO PUT THAT IN CONTEXT, NOW WITH THESE RAYS
WILL PRICES, A TANK OF GAS IN MEXICO, IT COSTS 12 DAYS WORTH
OF PAY TO FILL UP YOUR TANK.
BY THE WAY, IF YOU'RE AN AMERICAN WORKER, THAT'S NOT
GOOD NEWS EITHER.
IF YOU ARE DRIVING LONG DISTANCE FOR WORK, YOUR SPENDING
ALMOST AN ENTIRE DAY'S WORTH OF PAY TO FILL UP YOUR TANK.
WE'RE NOT IN GREAT SHAPE ñ WE'RE NOT IN GREAT SHAPE EITHER, BUT
MEXICO'S WORSE OFF.
12 DAYS TO PAY FOR A TANK OF GAS.
WHY DO YOU THINK THEY ARE PROTESTING?
AND THEN INFLATION, WHICH LEADS TO HIGHER FOOD PRICES AS WELL.
AND EVEN IF YOU DON'T HAVE A CAR, YOU ARE WALKING TO
WORK, WHATEVER IT IS, YOU STILL HAVE TROUBLE PUTTING FOOD
ON THE TABLE.
AND THE SECOND CHOICE THEY HAVE, OTHER THAN WORKING IN THE
FACTORIES, IS TO GO ACROSS THE BORDER.
NOW, REMEMBER, NAFTA PASSED IN THE 1990S, AND WE HAVE A HUGE
IMMIGRATION PROBLEM THAT EXPLODES IN THE LATE 1990S.
THE LAST PIECE OF THE PUZZLE IS, WE'VE GOT THIS MEXICAN ECONOMY
THAT IS IN SOME DEGREE IN TROUBLE, YES WE ARE ADDING DROPS
TO THE FACTORIES, BUT IT'S VERY LOW-WAGE JOBS AND YOU'VE
DISLIKED ñ YOU'VE DISPLACED A LOT OF THE WORKERS AND FARMERS,
AND A LOT OF THEM COME TO AMERICA, AND AMERICANS ARE
PISSED, AND THEN A GUY LIKE TRUMP COMES ALONG AND SAYS
WE NEED TO BUILD A WALL.
SOLD THE LAWS PASSED BY BILL CLINTON, IRONICALLY, DID IN
HILLARY CLINTON WHILE SHE WAS RUNNING AGAINST DONALD TRUMP.
THAT IS WHAT THE PROGRESSIVES CALL THE NEOLIBERAL AGENDA,
WHEN YOU GO AND YOU GLOBALIZE.
FOR ME I DON'T THINK IT'S THAT SIMPLE, TO ME THERE ARE
CERTAINLY POSITIVE EFFECTS OF GLOBALIZATION, AND WE ñ WE, AS
IN THE WHOLE WORLD ñ HAVE CREATED A DECENT SIZE MIDDLE
CLASS IN INDIA AND CHINA, SOME IN MEXICO, BUT WE'VE ALSO
CREATED ENORMOUS INCOME INEQUALITY.
IN MEXICO, HERE IN THE U.S., RUSSIA IS THE WORST.
SO, IF YOU ARE GOING TO DO GLOBALIZATION, YOU HAVE TO BE
VERY CAREFUL ABOUT HOW YOU PRESENT OPPORTUNITY IN ALL OF
THOSE COUNTRIES, BUT IF ñ BECAUSE IF YOU DON'T BRING
OPPORTUNITY ALONG WITH ALL THAT EQUALITY, IT LEADS TO THIS.
OXFAM DOES A STUDY EVERY YEAR TO KIND OF SHOW YOU WHAT
WEALTH INEQUALITY IS LIKE, AND THEY DON'T JUST LOOK AT THE
UNITED STATES, THEY LOOK AT THE WHOLE WORLD.
WHAT THEY FOUND IS THAT EIGHT PEOPLE IN THIS WHOLE WORLD
HAVE MORE WEALTH THAN THE BODY FIFTH ñ
THAN THE BOTTOM 50% OF THE POPULATION.
THAT IS INSANE.
THAT IS NOT TO DEMONIZE THE WEALTHY, BUT JUST TO SAY
THAT WE HAVE A CERTAIN SYSTEM SET UP, INTERNATIONALLY,
THROUGH CERTAIN TRADES, ETC.,
THAT OBVIOUSLY BENEFIT A CERTAIN FEW WHILE PUTTING EVERYONE
ELSE AT A SIGNIFICANT DISADVANTAGE.
IT'S REALLY EASY TO SAY, WELL, NAFTA, AND IF NAFTA DIDN'T EXIST
WE WOULDN'T THIS PROBLEM.
IT'S A MORE NUANCED PICTURE.
FOR EXAMPLE, THE MEXICAN GOVERNMENT PUSHED THROUGH THIS
PRIVATIZATION OF THE OIL INDUSTRY, WHICH IS WHAT ñ
WHICH IS WHAT HAS LED TO THIS INCREASE IN OIL PRICES.
WHO DO YOU THINK WAS BEHIND THAT PUSH?
U.S. OIL INTERESTS.
ITS CORPORATE INTERESTS, AND THE POWERFUL CONTROLLING THE
GOVERNMENT, AGAIN, BEING BEHIND THE PROBLEMS, IT'S NOT JUST
NAFTA.
ANOTHER ONE IS TRUMP'S RHETORIC.
HE IS SAYING HE'S GOING TO BUILD A WALL AND PUNISH MEXICAN
INDUSTRY, AND WHAT HAPPENS?
THE PESO COLLAPSES, WHICH INCREASES THE BURDEN PUT ON
MEXICAN CITIZENS.
SO, AGAIN, IT'S INEQUALITY THAT IS BEING CAUSED BY THE VERY
WEALTHY THAT IS CAUSING THE BROAD PROBLEM HERE, NOT
JUST A PARTICULAR DEAL OR A PARTICULAR PRIVATIZATION DEAL.
WHEN IT COMES TO THE ESTABLISHMENT, WHETHER IT IS
POLITICIANS IN THE UNITED STATES OR MEXICO, AND THE MEDIA IN THE
U.S.
AND MEXICO, IS ALL CONTROLLED BY MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS.
WHEN A MULTINATIONAL CORPORATION SAYS, DON'T WORRY, WE HAD
YOUR BEST INTERESTS IN MIND, NOBODY BELIEVES THEM EXCEPT
THOSE ESTABLISHMENT PEOPLE.
AT ALL THE POLITICIANS AND THE MEDIA SAY, EXXON MOBILE HAS YOUR
BEST INTERESTS IN MIND, MEXICAN PEOPLE.
WHO IS EXXON MOBILE WORK FOR?
EXXON MOBILE, WE ALL KNOW THAT, THEY'LL HAVE YOUR BEST
INTEREST IN MIND.
THEY INSULT YOUR INTELLIGENCE BY CONTINUING TO PUSH THESE
OUTRAGEOUS LIES.
I CAN'T MEMBER THE EXACT NUMBER, BUT A FEW SMALL ELITE
CORPORATIONS NOW HAVE MORE MONEY THAN 184 OF THE COUNTRIES
COMBINED.
THE REASON I GIVE YOU THAT CONTEXT IS, NOW WE ARE NOT RUN
BY GOVERNMENTS ANYMORE, WE ARE RUN BY CORPORATIONS.
THEY MAKE THE DECISIONS.
AND THEY THINK THEY ARE ALSO CLEVER IN THE ESTABLISHMENT
ñ AGAIN, POLITICS AND MEDIA IS WHAT I'M REFERRING TO ñ
WE'VE BEEN LYING TO PEOPLE FOR 30 OR 40
YEARS, AND TELLING THEM THAT OUR AGENDA IS WHAT'S BEST FOR THEM.
THE IDIOTS WILL KEEP ON BELIEVING IT.
WELL WE DON'T BELIEVE IT ANYMORE, AND BY THE WAY, THE
RIGHT DOESN'T BELIEVE IT AND THE LEFT DOESN'T BELIEVE IT, THAT'S
WHY YOU'LL HAVE PROTESTS IN MEXICO, BUT YOU'LL ALSO HAVE
BREXIT, AND YOU'LL HAVE TRUMP, BECAUSE WE DON'T BELIEVE
YOU ANYMORE, IT'S AN OBVIOUS LIE.
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