{"id":1285,"date":"2012-01-18T23:59:59","date_gmt":"2012-01-18T23:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.wordpress.com\/?p=1285"},"modified":"2012-01-18T23:59:59","modified_gmt":"2012-01-18T23:59:59","slug":"chihua-chihua-border-tours-nafta-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1285","title":{"rendered":"Chihua Chihua, Border Tours, NAFTA problems"},"content":{"rendered":"

I talked with Matt Arnold today.\u00a0 He and his family were missionaries in Chihua Chihua, Mexico, for 17 years.\u00a0 They worked with indigenous people in the rural areas there.\u00a0 He said it’s not “African poverty,” but the poverty there is significant — and just one poor\u00a0growing season away from major problems.\u00a0 In fact, because of an unexpected cold snap that came through Chihua Chihua last year, Arnold said come harvest time there there may well be some dire needs.\u00a0 (For more on Mr. Arnold and his mission go to ntm.org.)\u00a0 During our conversation, Mr. Arnold also alluded to the escalating violence across Mexico.\u00a0 On a campaign “Border Tour” a number of years ago, our family went to Juarez, Mexico (billed as the “Murder Capital of Mexico”).\u00a0 Some 200,000 people there live in slums with no running water, no sewers, no electricity…\u00a0 What’s more, many work in multi-national plants there making $3 a shift, not an hour, a shift.\u00a0 Note:<\/strong>\u00a0 With the passing of NAFTA in 1994, it opened the door for more and more ‘sweat shop’ situations throughout Mexico and Latin America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I talked with Matt Arnold today.\u00a0 He and his family were missionaries in Chihua Chihua, Mexico, for 17 years.\u00a0 They worked with indigenous people in the rural areas there.\u00a0 He said it’s not “African poverty,” but the poverty there is …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}