Forbes: For Mexico, Drugs And Crime Erasing Free Trade Gains

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For Mexico, Drugs And Crime Erasing Free Trade Gains
Kenneth Rapoza

MEXICO ECONOMY

Remember when Nafta was supposed to lift Mexicans up out of poverty?

Free trade was going to give them all jobs in factories that were either relocating there from the U.S. and Canada, or witness the setting up of subsidiaries to make Mexico an essential part of the North American supply chain. More jobs. More money. Que bueno!

Crime, drugs and government corruption have thrown buckets of cold water on that story now for at least 10 years.

Read more at: https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrapoza/2019/08/14/for-mexico-drugs-and-crime-erasing-free-trade-gains/#ab2e932f4bf3