Crusade Against Hunger in Mexico 'Captured' by Transnational Companies That Create Poverty La Jornada
go to original April 19, 2013

The same transnational corporations that have led communities to poverty by means of the importation of high fructose [products], potatoes, coffee and wheat while posing unfair competition to domestic production, are those that have "captured" the National Crusade Against Hunger, declared representatives of the Alliance for Healthy Food which includes twenty organizations.

Now these companies, along with the federal government, are seeking to combine public assistance and philanthropy in the context of the Crusade, but it is a road for maintaining inequality and is based on violation of social rights.

"Their purpose is to clean up the image of the monopolies" in order to continue the impunity, enjoy tax exemptions and avoid paying taxes, said Victor Suárez, from the National Association of Commercial Enterprises (ANEC).

Suárez added that the Crusade is an hambretón [term is made up from hambre (hunger) and maratón (marathon)]; it is not a State policy based on rights. He explained that PepsiCo imports thousands of tons of high fructose [corn] syrup, a substitute for cane sugar used in the production of soft drinks, saying "it generates poverty in sugarcane fields and in the national productive system."

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