“The Mexican people are increasingly middle class, and Mexico has substantially become a middle-class society. This is true despite the significant poverty, and the class and geographic inequality that have deep historical roots.” PeopleClassPovertyMiddleRootsHistoricalSignificantDespiteInequalityMiddle ClassMexicoMexican Author:Alan Bersin
“Mexico has become a robust democracy with a robust press and an active legislature. It has gone from being a sending country for migrants to a transit country, and increasingly a receiving country for migrants in its own right.” CountryGoneDemocracyPressesActiveMexicoReceivingLegislatureRobustMigrants Author:Alan Bersin
“America should be working more with the Mexicans to prevent the flow of guns going south into Mexico that have fueled so much of the violence there, and the smuggling of cash and the money laundering that transnational criminal organizations have instituted in North America, including in the United States.” ShouldStatesAmericaUnitedUnited StatesViolenceGunFlowOrganizationSouthIncludingCriminalsCashMexicoNorth AmericaSmugglingMoney Laundering Author:Alan Bersin
“In the last generation we've moved past a U.S.-Mexico relationship that while friendly on the surface, and demilitarized for the most part, really was not a genuinely cooperative relationship. As a result of the U.S.-Mexico War in the 19th century, and the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848, half of what was Mexico was severed and became much of the western part of the United States. To add insult to injury, most Americans never knew that, and most Mexicans have never forgotten it.” WarStatesLastsPastUnitedResultsHalfUnited StatesGenerationsCenturyMovedAddWesternForgottenSurfaceInsultInjuryFriendlyMexicoTreaties19th CenturyCooperativesInsult To InjuryGuadalupe Author:Alan Bersin
“We need to realize that the economic situation between Mexico and the United States is not just one in which we trade with one another. We make things together. We have shared production platforms. Cross-border trade is part of a single production process, and while apparently the Trump administration will seek to re-examine elements of that production platform, it is what it is and won't be easily dismantled.” NeedsStatesTogetherProcessRealizingUnitedSituationUnited StatesEconomicTrumpElementsCrossesTradeProductionsAdministrationBordersJust OneMexicoPlatformsIt Is What It Is Author:Alan Bersin
“The potential of Mexico, Canada and the United States is enormous. We have a combined population of half a billion people; peaceful trade-friendly borders that are the envy of the world; the prospect of energy independence is within reach and will change the geopolitical situation of United States; we do a trillion dollars in trade among the three countries; more than 18,000 American companies are involved in foreign direct investment in Mexico and Canada; an increasing number of Mexican companies are creating jobs in the United States.” PeopleWorldCountryStatesJobsThreeEnergyUnitedNumbersHalfCompanySituationUnited StatesInvolvedCreatingDirectIndependenceTradeDollarsInvestmentPopulationEnvyBillionsEnormousPeacefulBordersCanadaFriendlyMexicoMexicanWithin ReachGeopoliticalCreating JobsEnergy IndependenceCanada And The United States Author:Alan Bersin
“We must recognize that this massive economic bloc that's emerging in North America cannot be accomplished unilaterally. It must be accomplished in partnership with Mexico and Canada. And we have to work together to secure the continent in order to keep dangerous people and dangerous things out and strengthen perimeter security on a continental basis.” PeopleTogetherAmericaOrderEconomicSecurityDangerousBasesSecureAccomplishedCanadaWorking TogetherMassiveMexicoPartnershipContinentsEmergingDangerous ThingsNorth AmericaContinentalPerimeter Author:Alan Bersin
“Until we have a legitimate labor market between Mexico and the United States, people will attempt to come here to work.” PeopleStatesUnitedUnited StatesLaborMexico Author:Alan Bersin
