[Ost-news] Noam Chomsky: Starving the Poor with Biofuels

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Starving the Poor  
Noam Chomsky  
Khaleej Times, May 15, 2007  
The chaos that derives from the so-called international order can be painful if you are on the receiving end of the power that determines that order’s structure. Even tortillas come into play in the ungrand scheme of things.

Recently, in many regions of Mexico, tortilla prices jumped by more than 50 per cent. In January, in Mexico City, tens of thousands of workers and farmers rallied in the Zocalo, the city’s central square, to protest the skyrocketing cost of tortillas.

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