POLI 211 : mexico.docx

• School: McGill University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLI 211
• Professor: Fillippo Sabetti

Document Summary

January 1 1944: nafta ( north american free trade agreement) => alena (fr) president carlos salinas de gortari on that same day : major guerilla insurency erupted in southern mexico in chipas revolutionary organisation : Zapatista national liberation front => las zapatistas they demanded more political participation and a solution to the urgent economic difficulty of poor rural farmers. =>increase against the government became frequent, whereas they were nearly inexistent before 1980. => international and domestic investors began to withdraw their money from the country. =>by the end of the year : major economic crisis that amplified social tensions. =>the fear of similar phenomenons in other neighboring countries caused foreign businesses to withdraw their economic connections to the region : increase of unemployment. => anti immigration in southern us states (texas, cali etc) 1994: profound change in mexican politics ( the election in 2000)