Communication and Information of the Woman (CIMAC), Mexican civil association founded in 1988, works in the diffusion of the themes that affect the women and at present develops a project of trinational character to analyze the effects that in all the environments generates the Tried Free Commerce of North America (TLCAN).

This challenge has been called “Doing Networks in North America”, and its objective is to open the relations between communicators of Mexico, United States and Canada for the purpose of generating an exchange information on the impacts of the TLCAN and the globalization, to discuss them and to do diffusion of the results that be obtained in the three nations.

Because of it, from September of the year 2000 CIMAC, with the auspice of the Foundation Heinrich Böll, initiated this project beginning by seeking the contacts that make possible to bind a greater number of journalists that be identified and interested, and who decide to participate in the objectives of the same one.

It given the significance of these trade agreements among the countries of North America, reinforced with the firm of the Tried Free Commerce (TLC), CIMAC considered that the central theme at first of relations with journalists of Mexico, United States and Canada was to document the impact of this agreement toward men and women, considering that the mass media cannot be at margin of the changes that this agreements generates among social economic, environmental, and labor matters.

The project has as purpose that the journalists of the three countries signatories of the TLCAN analyze the conditions of the people through interviews, testimonies and studies, among others informative sources.

After three years of work to make a journalist network of the three nations, in October of 2004 37 journalists met in Monterrey, Mexico, to conform the Trinational Network of Journalists of Mexico, United States and Canada. The main objective is to exchange information about the form in which the three nations have been touched for that trade agreement.

In the final statement of the First Encounter of the Trinational Network of Journalists, they recognize that the TLCAN “is established between uneven economies and before they need to document the cultural, economic, political, and social impact in the three countries; we agree to conform the Network”. Likewise, we agree to look at the impacts in the three nations of the migration and the problems of the water, as well as to carry out the second encounter in Montreal on October 29th and 30th, 2005.

HOW DO WE DO IT?

Without doubt, the designed goal is not easy, but neither impossible. In this way, we work in two sides:

1.- To tighten ties of union, looking to integrate a working party with proposed all fear presented, by means of the integration of a board of directors, exchange of electronic or personals messages between the participants. If you have interest in integrating yourself to this party, write us to miruruiz@cimacnoticias.com

2.- To exchange information, analysis, studies, interviews, that undertake the social and labor situation of the men and the women, because of the firm of the Tried Free Commerce. This place has been created for this end. If you have some information that want to share, write us to miruruiz@cimacnoticias.com

Traducción: Miriam González Sánchez