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Nafta Boy Episode 2

Series: NAFTA BOY
From: Claes Andreasson
Length: 00:03:20

Some say there is nothing funny about free trade. NAFTA Boy disrespectfully disagrees: Read the full description.
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Piece Description

Some say there is nothing funny about free trade. NAFTA Boy disrespectfully disagrees: ?NAFTA has meant middle-class Mexicans buying Chinese-made products in U.S. malls and idle Americans going to Tijuana to buy counterfeit medicine and plastic surgery at cheap prices. That sounds like fair trade to me!? The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) went into force on January 1, 1994. NAFTA Boy has been complaining about the free trade pact between Canada (his homeland), Mexico and the United States ever since. This series of brutal commentaries about the U.S.-Mexico border demonstrates how almost everyone loses in the era of globalization. Hosted by Jamie Cooper, a Canadian Barrister and law professor in the U.S., The Adventures of NAFTA Boy is a full contact sport. Be sure to wear shin guards!

Broadcast History

Has not aired nationally nor locally

Timing and Cues

For years, Jamie Cooper, a law professor and Canadian Barrister, has been working along the U.S.-Mexico Border, trying to find his way home. Join NAFTA Boy as he uncovers the ugly side of free trade ? the one that economists and politicians don?t talk want you to know about.

This week, NAFTA Boy goes uncover to find out who makes all those fake Winnie the Pooh plaster piggy banks, on sale in tourist shops on the southern side of la linea ? the border between Mexico and the U.S.