On Jan 31, 8:51 pm, "Speeders & Drunk Drivers are MURDERERS"
> wrote:
> http://tinyurl.com/3a2a9e
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> Mexicans protest as tortilla crisis hurts Calderon
> Wed Jan 31, 2007 8:20pm ET136
>
> By Gunther Hamm
>
> MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of demonstrators marched through
> Mexico's capital on Wednesday night to protest at a surge in tortilla
> prices that has put new President Felipe Calderon under intense pressure.
>
> Soaring U.S. demand for ethanol has sent corn prices to their highest level
> in a decade, pulling up prices of Mexico's national food staple.
>
> Protesters held up ears of corn and complained that Calderon, a
> conservative accused by his leftist rival of stealing last July's
> presidential election, was failing to protect them against foreign market
> forces.
>
> "Calderon isn't just a thief, he's a murderer because he wants us to die of
> hunger," Elvira Acevedo, 62, said at the march.
>
> Corn tortilla prices rose as high as 15 pesos ($1.36) for a kilogram (2.2
> pounds) -- roughly 35 of the flat corn patties -- in recent weeks as the
> corn market tightened. Mexico imports corn from the United States to top up
> its domestic production.
>
> Calderon responded this month by persuading producers, makers and retailers
> to cap their prices so tortillas would sell at no more than 8.50 pesos a
> kilo, but local media say some vendors are still charging up to 12.
>
> Before the crisis, tortillas sold at around 5 pesos per kilogram.

Starving? Bullshit. Almost every greasy mestizo over 20 years of age
is a fat slob.

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