LATIN AMERICA ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL SITUATION: A CASE STUDY OF MEXICO

In recent times, most notably from 1980, most Latin America countries have being ravaged by difficult economic and political situation. Some of which are inflation, falling real wages, poverty, debt (foreign debt), drugs (trafficking, drug war) and unscrupulous governance and governance issues.[1] The issues mentioned above have being evident in Mexico which is the country that is considered in this post.

Mexico is the largest economy and the second largest country by population in Latin America. She has doggedly sought to assert her autonomy from her northern neighbour which is the U.S.A.[2]   Despite Mexico’s attempt to  assert her autonomy, she is dependent on U.S.A economically and thus despite the support and  income gotten from remittance of Mexicans in U.S.A, Mexico still battletc

The subsequent posts would look at

Conceptual clarification of poverty, debt, drugs and governance.

 A historical Trajectory of Mexico

 The Four Variables and Their Cataclysm Effect: A Case Study of the Four Variables. 

Also Interrogation of the Four Variable on the Essence, Degree and Development in Mexico shall be considered. 

I hope you Look forward to this thought provoking posts.

Reference
[1] Blake, C. H. 2005 . Politics in Latin America .U.S.A: Houghton Mifflin Company p50

[2]  Palmowski J. 2008.  Dictionary of Contemporary World History .U.S: Oxford University press. p 451

Paper presented by Oliseh Kadishi 2017