rachel bradshaw-bean is speaking out and joins us today. the 20 are sick of this week, the north american free trade agreement, or nafta, went into effect. >> in a few moments, i will sign the north america free trade act into law. nafta will tear down trade barriers between our three nations and create the world's largest trade zone and create thousands of jobs in this country by 1995 alone. >> we will look at the legacy of nafta and the 20th anniversary of this zapatista uprising by going to the mexican state of chiapas. debatetas consider nafta death sentence for the indigenous people of mexico. all of that and more coming up. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. siege toitants laid two key cities in western iraq on thursday, liberating prisoners, occupying buildings, and setting police stations on fire. the iraqi military has pushed back with airstrikes. iraq is embroiled in a sectarian crisis fueled by the civil war in neighboring syria. the recent attacks took place in an bar province, t