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Manuel Perez-Rocha

Manuel Perez-Rocha is an associate fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies and the coordinator of the Network for Justice in Global Investment.

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Dec 10, 2017
Latest from Manuel Perez-Rocha
Aerial picture showing a Pemex oil complex in Tula, Hidalgo State, Mexico, taken on February 4, 2019.
News Analysis
Environment & Health

With Passage of NAFTA 2.0, Congress Boosts Fossil Fuel Polluters in Mexico

The deal perpetuates the excessive power of corporate polluters to ride roughshod over Mexican communities.
by
Manuel Perez-Rocha,
Inequality.org
January 18, 2020
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View of Canadian Goldcorp gold mine at the Los Filos complex in Carrizalillo, Guerrero, Mexico, on November 19, 2015.
News
Environment & Health

Mining Companies Use Excessive Legal Powers to Gamble With Latin American Lives

Trade agreements and investment treaties take precedence over local health and environment concerns.
by
Manuel Perez-Rocha &
Jen Moore,
Inequality.org
May 14, 2019
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Migrants walk towards El Chaparral port of entry in Tijuana, Mexico, at the border with the United States on June 21, 2018.
Economy & Labor

Failed Economic Policies Drive Families to Seek Asylum at the Border

Many families detained at the border have lost their livelihoods as the result of reforms that benefit elites.
by
Manuel Perez-Rocha,
Inequality.org
July 1, 2018
Truthout
News Analysis

What “Free Trade” Has Done to Central America

Warnings about the human and environmental costs of “free trade” went unheeded. Now the most vulnerable Central Americans are paying the price.
by
Julia Paley &
Manuel Perez-Rocha,
Foreign Policy In Focus
November 24, 2014
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News Analysis

NAFTA at 20: The New Spin

In essence, NAFTA advocates have been reduced to saying: ‘so maybe NAFTA didn’t help Mexico reduce poverty or increase wages. But hey! At least it gave it Walmart,…
by
Manuel Perez-Rocha &
Javier Rojo,
Foreign Policy in Focus
March 16, 2013
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