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GP Case Study: Mexico, Timeline - Coggle Diagram

- - - - 2019
        
        2020
        
        2021
        
        2022
        
        US demands to renegotiate NAFTA, so Trump turned a blind eye to the emerging authoritarian populist regime.
        
        He passed a law imposing restrictions on foreign agents operating in Mexico, including those from the CIA, the DEA, and the FBI. He backtracked on energy reform—something his predecessor implemented in order to encourage foreign investment—auguring a return to an energy policy dominated by state monopolies
        
        Mex has one of the highest Covid-19 lethality rates in the world. Covid developed and increased the violence of the conflict
        
        Gv't refused to implement fiscal policies mitigate the damage.
        
        López Obrador seems more intent on resurrecting a carbon- and oil-based economy than in pushing the country to address the imperatives of climate change
        
        Biden is oblivious to the economic regression, the economic debacle and the uncontrolled pandemic in Mexico
        
        automotive sector -- approx 30% of NA trade, and 80% go to the USA
        
        neoliberal development strategy -- move jobs from US to Mex: cheaper, creates jobs that reduce pull to USA
        
        Trump wanted the jobs to come back -- not fair that Mexicans were "stealing jobs"
        
        workers cannot vote on contracts, no power due to the corruption. TUs aren't working on behalf of the workers, but for themselves
        
        USMCA -- Mex eliminate protection contracts, ensure basic union democracy
        
        Lopez vibes with it, even if the Mexican business community doesn't
        
        guarantees better conditions and rights for workers -- sign of development
        
        minimum wages based on the market value of the products (trucks and that) like $16/hr, rather than Mex's $3/hr -- wage growth for all workers, encourages economic development
        
        entire supply chain should create 80.000 new jobs
        
        López Obrador dismantled many checks and balances that M's reformers ace struggled to construct over the past 3 decades
        
        claims that it's stopping him fight corruption
        
        populist -- trying to "bring power back to the people" by creating more "transparency"
        
        dismantling checks and balances -- lack of legitimacy
        
        announced he would deliver scholarships, pensions and cash to low income people, trying to become a man of the people
        
        creates a divide -- he is the popular leader, the media/judiciary/opposition "thwarting" real democracy and enabling corruption
        
        he is Centre Left
      - Fox wins the election
        
        combo of authoritarianism and democracy
      - drug trafficking, organised crime gone wild
      - growth is not possible when a state cannot ensure equality, regulate monopolies, or guarantee the transparency of economic transactions