{"article":{"id":218672,"heading":"Manufacturing a Food Crisis","author":"Walden Bello","created":"2008-07-02 17:12:52","modified":"2008-07-02 17:12:52","last_modified":"Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:12:52","article":"<p>More articles from \"Focus on the Global South\" are available at www.focusweb.org <br><br> to read the article by Walden Bello, click on <br>  <br> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/doc\/20080602\/bello\/print\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/doc\/20080602\/bello\/print<\/a><\/p>\n","contact":"mbatko@lycos.com","link":"http:\/\/www.mbtranslations.com","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"Tens of thousands of people staged demonstrations in Mexico last year to protest a 60% ncrease in the price of tortillas. How on earth did Mexicans, who live on the land where corn was domesticated, become dependent on US imports in the first place? ","numcomment":0,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2008\/07\/218672.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[]}