The largest-ever U.S. agriculture trade delegation to Mexico visited in November, in the middle of the Mexican farm protest actions in recent weeks. The farmers are demanding a dialogue with national, state and academic leaders for a new “National Agriculture” policy, which will build up the independent Mexican agriculture sector. They propose, for example, to take basic grains off the Chicago Board of Trade, and outside of speculative and transnational control, and other measures.
The thrust of the U.S. trade mission, in opposition to this process, was to decree still more globalist domination of Mexican-U.S. agriculture and trade. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins led the delegation which included executives from 41 U.S. businesses.
Mexico is the biggest importer of U.S. farm exports, amounting to $30.2 billion in 2024, including for nearly 50% of its corn consumption. The U.S. is reliant for fruits and vegetables from Mexico. The imposition of these trade patterns by the agro-food cartels over the past decades, has ruined thousands of independent family-scale farms, and depopulated the countryside in both countries.
Rollins staged her biggest publicity event at a Walmart Super Center in Mexico City. Walmart is notorious as the world leader in underpaying farmers and manufacturers, driving local merchants out of business, and in every way, de-structuring national economies. Walmart operates in 19 nations, with 10,750 stores, and 2.1 million employees.
Rollins sang the praises of how Walmart sells groceries in Mexico imported from the U.S. Not only that, she singled out the world’s biggest bakery chain, the Mexico-headquartered Grupo Bimbo, which supplies Walmart, as a praiseworthy operation because it imports from the U.S. for the Mexican market, and vice versa. Grupo Bimbo operates in some 35 countries, with a workforce of over 150,000.
A warning note: Walmart’s new domination campaign is in Africa. The mega-firm opened its first store under its own name in Johannesburg, South Africa in October 2025, proclaiming that it intends to “leverage” its global sourcing to spread rapidly on the continent.
In the United States, Walmart—the poster company for Trump’s Agriculture Secretary—has close to 35% of the whole retail grocery trade, as one of four mega companies that together control nearly 70% of all U.S. grocery sales. Details on this are in a new release by the U.S. group Farm Action, in their Nov. 18, 2025 document, “Grocery Retail: The Last Link in the Monopoly Chain.”
