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Book SynopsisMexico's fate is encreasingly entwined with that of the United States. In this book, Castaneda examines the key issues in Mexican life: the impact of emigration, the relationship between politics and economics and the cultural changes taking place as Mexico moves closer to the United States. He also examines the United State's changing perceptions of Mexico and the basic historic and cultural outlooks that still divide the two countries. Finally, the campaign behind Proposition 187 in California is examined, with a discussion of the mix of ignorance and bias that has formed so much of America's reaction to Mexico.
Table of ContentsPart 1 The United States and Mexico: Mexico and California - the paradox of tolerance and democratization; the Mexican difference; can NAFTA change Mexico? - the risk of free trade. Part 2 When Mexico lost its charm - a memoir of 1994: NAFTA and the succession; the Chiapas surprise; Colosio, Cardenas, and the not-so-great debate; an expected and frustrated transition; anticlimax - the elections of August 21, 1994; after the elections and before the collapse; the December debacle. Part 3 The United States and Latin America: democracy and inequality in Latin America - a tension of the times.
