of government-owned monopoly This is in direct contrast to efforts by govern ments throughout the world over the past decade to privatize their state-owned monopolies the situation is much more complicated than meets the eye. In the However, United States has been flooding the view of many Mexican sugar growers, the same time, Mexican market with corn syrup, a cheaper form of sweetener At the Mexican they believe the United States is being as aggressive as possible in keeping by the sugar imports out of the country The American rebuttal to this is exemplified that views of Jack Roney, an economist at the American Sugar Alliance who believes this subsidy of inefficient producers will result in huge surpluses that will eventually force Mexico to dump it on the US market and make it a US problem as many The general view by industry experts who follow the situation as well men of the plantation owners is that eventually, many of the sugar producers, particularly the smaller ones, will go out of business anyway. Besides, many of the young num- who work in the cane fields have started to seek work elsewhere But the govern- ment's efforts should at least reduce the shock of a sudden elimination of large sugar bers of jobs. In the of Rodolfo Perdomo Bueno, head of Grupo Perno, mill by his great-grandfather, President Fox's actions have at least avoided a tremendous social problem According to Perdomo, if the 27 mills expropriated by the government had been allowed to close, thousands of people would be asking, "How am i going to live, what am l going to eat, what alternative do you give me, what do I do, where do I go? Do I go to the United States?" The Solution