Mexico and the Failed State Revisited(realclearworld.com)
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Mexico and the Failed State Revisited
http://www.realclearworld.com/articles/2010/04/06/mexico_and_the_failed_state_revisited_98903.html
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I don't feel like it's a stretch for HN because it actually discusses in detail what's going on in Mexico. Previously all I could understand from various major media sources was that there was a lot of drug-related violence in Mexico and that the gov't was having trouble keeping it under control.
Similar articles about geopolitical events are occasionally successful on HN - for example, the Atlantic's 6 or 7 page long article on health care, and also the article PG submitted on how JP Morgan provided one of the first major financial bailouts in the US. The issue, I believe, is not subject matter but quality of content.
Similar articles about geopolitical events are occasionally successful on HN - for example, the Atlantic's 6 or 7 page long article on health care, and also the article PG submitted on how JP Morgan provided one of the first major financial bailouts in the US. The issue, I believe, is not subject matter but quality of content.
oh.. tequilas, tacos, mariachis and sky level corruption :)
im from mexico, its actually worst than what you think ;)
im from mexico, its actually worst than what you think ;)
The author lost me quickly though by simply echoing the new, trendy "root cause" of Mexico's problems. No, it's not America's drug appetite. A little too convenient, and recent, to be a root cause.
The questions should be: why has Mexico _always_ been a failed state? They've never been able to erect a functional and thriving economy. With all their natural resources, why have they been so mismanaged and squandered? Why have their citizens, for decades now, sought the U.S. for livelihood and opportunity? Show me the list of technological, medical, agricultural -- any invention or advancement that has come from Mexico. Anyone? Tell me then, why is this list so empty?
If anyone thinks that Mexico's problems are recent, and/or caused solely via the drug trade -- they have not been observing and analyzing. Go back 40 years...no drug problem to point to then, yet these same facts held true then, just like they do now.
I don't know the answers to the above questions. They have bothered me for years, for I don't believe there is anything inherently wrong with the Mexican people. They've been led poorly, and governed poorly, for sure. It's just painfully clear that their problems are not as recent as the Drug Years of the past 2-3 decades.