Report and Executive summary of the #ToxiTourMexico

You can now access the report and executive summary of the Transnational Corporations and Free Trade in Mexico. Caravan on the Social and Environmental Impacts (#ToxiTourMexico).

The Caravan on the social and environmental impacts of transnational corporations and free trade in Mexico (#ToxiTourMexico) started in December, 2019 and covered 2,500 km along six regions in Mexico: the Santiago River Basin, the Independencia River Basin, the Tula River Basin in the south of the Mezquital Valley, the Atoyac-Zahuapan basin, the Libres Oriental basin, and the North of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. In these regions, dense, interconnected industrial corridors have created “environmental hells”: sites where high-risk industries, extensive agribusiness and extractive industries have proliferated, and where their devastating impacts on the health of local people are not being monitored.

The Report covers the trail of socio-environmental devastation, the regulations that create these industrial paradises in the shadow of free trade, documents the environmental hell for the peoples in each region, and touches on nine European transnational corporations operating in the affected regions. Finally it gives a list of recommendations to safeguard the peoples’ rights, as well as social and environmental justice.

The goal of the report is to support political work on the responsibility of European transnational corporations, in particular, in the social and environmental devastation in the six visited regions.

The Executive Summary lists the main findings in each region and provides a condensed list of recommendations for Mexico, the United States Congress and the European Union, in particular for Germany, France, the Spanish State and Switzerland.