Mexico developed health care breakthroughs during the 1970's when petroleum prices were so high globally, so that's when their baby-boomer generation emerged. They're now old enough to need work and have flocked to the USA. Can you imagine how much worse things would be if it wasn't for NAFTA and the democracy that it helped empower reformers in Mexico to finally obtain for our neighboring #2 trading partner?
Incidentally Lopez Obrador is NOW in a statistical deadheat with the right-leaning Felipe Calderon (of the PAN party). The more we put pressure on Mexico, immigration-wise and pro-entrepreneurially, the less chance Lopez Obrador has of winning.
Certainly, you will name these health care breadkthroughs and correlate them with their baby-boomers emergence.
Mexicans flocked to the borders when factories were built after NAFTA. It was easy for them to cross the borders since we have virtually no border security. At that point in time I can remember seeing Tyson Food ads in the local newspaper advertising for workers saying you don't have to speak English. The jobs were for Arkansas, Alabama and other poultry producing states.The newspaper was only 9 miles from Mexico.
We have poured billions into Mexico trying to make them into something that they are not. Naturally, we have a huge trade deficit with them. We Americans don't have a clue as to how much tax dollars have been given to Mexico to make NAFTA look good. Every time Condi Rice goes to Mexico she takes a handful of millions to just give away.
Reformers in Mexico????????V. Fox. Don't make me laugh. Mexico is a socialist country and will remain so.
Quite frankly, I could care less who wins the election in Mexico.