Global causes of domestic political problems
If a state is not in control of the causes of a situation, what can it do in response?Thousands in Mexico City Protest Rising Food Prices
"Tens of thousands of workers and farmers filled this city’s central square on Wednesday to protest spiraling food prices, ratcheting up the volume over a problem that has dogged President Filipe Calderón in his first weeks in office...
"The high cost of tortillas and other food staples has consumed politics here over the past few weeks, posing a stubborn challenge to Mr. Calderón as he seeks to project an image as a take-charge leader. It has spilled into the ever-simmering debate here over the country’s commitment to free-market economics...
"As night fell, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the leftist candidate who narrowly lost to Mr. Calderón in July, spoke to the crowd...
"To opponents of Mr. Calderón’s government, the spike in the price of tortillas is further proof that the free-market policies he has pledged to continue benefit the wealthy at the expense of the poor...
"Mexico’s corn flour industry is controlled by just two companies, Grupo Maseca, also known as Gruma, and Minsa... [but] an agricultural economist... said prices were likely to remain high in the United States, which supplies about 25 percent of Mexico’s corn..."
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