00:01Mexican farmers and truckers staged nationwide protests on Monday,
00:05blocking major highways and the Zaragoza Isleta Bridge to El Paso, Texas, USA,
00:11in at least 25 states.
00:13They are demanding safer highways, fair grain prices,
00:16and the withdrawal of a proposed water law, they say,
00:19would restrict access to wells and irrigation in drought-prone regions.
00:24The reason why we are here is because they want to force a law
00:32that doesn't benefit us in absolutely nothing.
00:34What happens is that the new law that they call it,
00:39is that it leaves in defense 100%.
00:43The land without water doesn't serve absolutely for nothing.
00:46We are forced to carry out a stronger struggle
00:51to force the Mexican government, first, to recognize
00:55that there is a structural problem
00:57in the production and distribution of the food,
01:01and, on the other hand,
01:03that they see the need to rectify the public policy
01:08to organize the productivity, the production,
01:12but also to organize the distribution of the food.
01:16Protesters warned that the proposed law
01:18would give federal authorities greater control over water rights,
01:21threatening agricultural output.
01:23They vowed to maintain pressure until the government reviews the bill,
01:27ensures fair compensation,
01:29and improves highway security amid rising violence against transporters.
01:33the open source of food.
01:34The first thing that was used to be
01:35the proposed law
01:52is that the government reviews the sage-political
01:53and the local government reviews for a requirement.
01:56They say it was the hardest thing.
01:58The government reviews the idea of the adoption
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