Mexico : what everyone needs to know

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Label

Mexico : what everyone needs to know

Title remainder

what everyone needs to know

Statement of responsibility

Roderic Ai Camp

Creator

• Camp, Roderic A

Subject

• Mexico -- Relations -- United States
• United States -- Foreign relations -- Mexico
• Mexico -- Economic policy
• Mexico -- Economic conditions
• Mexico -- Relations -- United States
• National security -- Mexico
• Politics and government
• Mexico -- Foreign relations -- United States
• Economic policy -- Mexico
• Economic policy
• Mexico -- Politics and government
• National security -- Mexico
• Mexico -- Politics and government
• Economic history
• Mexico -- Economic conditions
• United States
• Mexico -- Economic conditions
• National security -- Mexico
• United States -- Relations -- Mexico
• National security
• United States -- Relations -- Mexico
• International relations
• Mexico
• Mexico -- Economic policy
• Mexico -- Politics and government

Language

eng

Summary

Today all would agree that Mexico and the United States have never been closer, that the fates of the two republics are inextricably intertwined. It has become an intimate part of life in almost every community in the United States, through immigration, imported produce, business ties, or illegal drugs. It is less a neighbor than a sibling; no matter what our differences, it is intricately a part of our existence. In this contribution to Oxford's acclaimed series, What Everyone Needs to Know, the author gives readers the most essential information about our sister republic to the south. He organizes chapters around major themes such as security and violence, economic development, foreign relations, the colonial heritage, and more. He asks questions that take us beyond the headlines: Why does Mexico have so much drug violence? What was the impact of the North American Free Trade Agreement? How democratic is Mexico? Who were Benito Juarez and Pancho Villa? What is the PRI (the Institutional Revolutionary Party)? The answers are sometimes surprising. Despite ratification of NAFTA, for example, Mexico has fallen behind Brazil and Chile in economic growth and rates of poverty. He explains that lack of labor flexibility, along with low levels of transparency and high levels of corruption, make Mexico less competitive than some other Latin American countries. The drug trade, of course, enhances corruption and feeds on poverty; approximately 450,000 Mexicans now work in this sector. But he also reveals that President Calderon's recent assault on narcotics smugglers, and the violence resulting from it, may have actually lessened the government's control of parts of the country and national institutions

Member of

• What everyone needs to know

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

972

Illustrations

maps

Index

index present

LC call number

JL1281

LC item number

.C339 2011

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

What everyone needs to know