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Ross laid out the other ugly damage from NAFTA's first 10 years through 2003:
-- All Mexican banks controlled by foreign corporate giants, mainly from the US.
-- All the railroads sold off to Union Pacific with former President Ernesto Zedillo now on its board as his reward.
-- The country's mines and airlines in private hands.
-- Two million hectares of tropical forest destroyed for private development with junk tree plantations sprouting up throughout Southern Mexico controlled by corporate behemoths like International Paper and Temple-Inland.
-- Homegrown industries, especially in textiles and plastics, shut down unable to complete with US giants.
-- Even the "Maquiladora Miracle" once creating 2 million jobs on the US border losing out to China and other lower wage countries in the inevitable race to the bottom WTO one-way trade deals always cause to countries from North and South.
-- Real wages down 20% over 10 years with the disparity of wealth far greater than in 1994 when the Zapatista struggle began.
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