By Walden Bello

This article appeared in the June 2, 2008 edition of The Nation.

May 15, 2008

When tens of thousands of people staged demonstrations in Mexico last year to protest a 60 percent increase in the price of tortillas, many analysts pointed to biofuel as the culprit. Because of US government subsidies, American farmers were devoting more ( Read more... )

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