Do you think NAFTA is controversial in the U.S.?  Let me tell you that it's pretty controversial in Mexico. On the surface, Mexico looks rather modern, from U.S.-style shopping centers full of imported goods to chain restaurants familiar to us up here.  Spend a night with a Mexican middle-class family, and you will see teenagers texting, Mom ordering pizza online, or dad taking an Uber from the airport.  And then there is a movie on Netflix.  Honestly, you feel as if you could be in a U.S. home. Outside the major cities, the situation is different.  This is because NAFTA has hit Mexican farmers rather hard, as Kimberly Amadeo wrote: Thanks to NAFTA, Mexico lost 1.3 million farm jobs.  The 2002 Farm Bill subsidized U.S. agribusiness by as much as 40 percent of net farm income. When NAFTA removed trade tariffs, companies exported corn and other grains to Mexico below cost.  Rural Mexican farmers...(Read Full Post)