Jaime Estrada - "Trade Missions"

Jaime Estrada
Bill Richardson
From NMPolitics.net - What’s wrong with this picture? With nothing to show for it, Governor Bill Richardson has just returned from another so-called “trade mission” to Cuba to meet with the communist regime’s dictators. Meanwhile, New Mexico lags behind other states in exports. Clearly, our state needs to get serious about trade, and that requires setting the right priorities in order to create jobs and get our economy growing again. New Mexicans are wondering what has resulted from four annual trips to Havana, the first led in 2007 by then Congressman and now U.S. Senator Tom Udall. According to international trade data produced by the U.S. Department of Commerce, exports from New Mexico to Cuba since 2007 amount to zero. That’s right, zero. Despite four consecutive “missions,” New Mexico has not sold a single pecan, green chile pepper or grain of wheat to Cuba. Read more here:



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