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Supporters of the deal created powerful bloc, with each NAFTA country able to take advantage of its strengths In Mexico, low-cost manufacturing. ..

the political economy of mexico's drug war

As a condition of membership in NAFTA, Mexico was forced to eliminate the system of communal land sharing known as ejido. ... NAFTA created a new billionaire business elite in Mexico—men like Carlos Slim—but also businessmen like Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera,..

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mexico, canada play hardball on trade deal over steel tariffs

It was the toughest threat yet from one of the negotiators over the deal that would replace the North American Free Trade Agreement. ... Mexico . Canada . Trade . White House . Steel . NAFTA . . . . . . . . ..

paris is burning

It is not, as Trump's nativist critique would have it, that the United States made a bad deal with Mexico when negotiating NAFTA. Rather, elites in the United States, Mexico, and Canada made a good deal for themselves at the expense of the citizens of each country. ..

the trump effect on mexico’s political scene

Especially if the U.S. president-elect makes good on his promises to deport undocumented immigrants, build a bigger border wall and toss out the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), questions of the U.S.-Mexico relationship and Mexican sovereignty will likely play much bigger roles..

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