Washington’s ‘Divide and Conquer’ Free Trade Agenda
From the defeat of the Free Trade Area of the Americas in 2005, to Washington’s sub-regional free-trade showdowns, to now, ...
Elections in Mexico: What’s the Use?
Mexico’s much vaunted “transition to democracy” is conventionally thought to have taken place in the period bounded by Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas’s ...
Displaced People: NAFTA’s Most Important Product
Since the passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in 1993, the U.S. Congress has debated and passed ...
Desolation: Mexican Campesinos and Agriculture in the 21st Century
The European Union has steadfastly opposed agricultural trade liberalization, as proposed by the United States, with arguments in favor of ...
Armoring NAFTA: The Battleground for Mexico’s Future
In March 2005, the leaders of the three NAFTA countries, U.S. president George W. Bush, Mexican president Vicente Fox, and ...
About Face
Mexico’s impending entry into the North American free trade area bodes ill for most of its people. In spite of ...
Immigration Policy: A Tricky Business
Though elected officials are reluctant to admit it, migration policy is a persistent issue with strategic implications. It is intimately ...
Mexico: The Wages of Trade
Until its recent embrace of free trade and market-oriented reform, Mexico was a paragon of nationalism and inward-oriented development. The ...
