NAFTA at 20: The New Spin

Saturday, 16 March 2013 10:29
By Manuel Perez-Rocha and Javier Rojo, Foreign Policy in Focus | News Analysis

Only a few years ago, analysts were warning that Mexico was at risk of becoming a “failed state.” These days, the Mexican government appears to be doing a much better PR job.
 
Despite the devastating and ongoing drug war, the story now goes that Mexico is poised to become a “middle-class” society. As establishment apostle Thomas Friedman put it in the New York Times, Mexico is now one of “the more dominant economic powers in the 21st century.”