The boosters of free trade tell us that NAFTA is a success, that it improved the lives of Mexican workers and farmers.  If you listen to the voices of those workers and farmers themselves, however, you hear a far different story.  NAFTA produced a decline in wages, destroyed over a million jobs, led to massive violations of labor rights, and displaced hundreds of thousands of people.  Many have had no alternative but to cross the border to survive.  In NAFTA from Below, you hear their stories.  They give you the real history of free trade, as they experienced it themselves.  Today boosters seek to extend NAFTA to other countries, duplicating its disastrous impact over and over again.  The testimony in NAFTA from Below helps readers understand what will be the inevitable consequence.

David Bacon