Keynote Speech: Opportunities and Challenges for Mexico Today

Diana Villiers Negroponte

The International Trade Journal, 2015, vol. 29, issue 5, 340-345

Abstract: Since its pre-colonial history, Mexico has demonstrated two contrary tendencies: the outward-looking, global trader and the protective, nationalist instinct. Today, the seven major constitutional reforms of the PRI government reflect the former. However, the teacher's union, some presidential advisors, and the criminal justice system reflect a preference for the latter. The more progressive sectors of Mexican society assert the need to participate in the global economy, but latent protective and nationalist tendencies throw up challenges. This article examines several contemporary examples of each tendency and demonstrates how they coexist uneasily in modern Mexico.

Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1080/08853908.2015.1078759

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