One meaning of this song is that is a written about the Inception of NAFTA on Jan 1, 1994. With the inception the Mexican Government took land away from citizens and gave it to international corperations moving into Mexico. This mostly happened in Chiapas where they were subsitant farmers. with the new rules that came with NAFTA they were no longer even allowed to grow corn to live off of, and were forced to purchase it from imports.
One meaning of this song is that is a written about the Inception of NAFTA on Jan 1, 1994. With the inception the Mexican Government took land away from citizens and gave it to international corperations moving into Mexico. This mostly happened in Chiapas where they were subsitant farmers. with the new rules that came with NAFTA they were no longer even allowed to grow corn to live off of, and were forced to purchase it from imports.