Time to Get Tough with Mexico

[Geee]

American Thinker:

Mexico is a failing narco-state and an economic parasite, and the United States and Canada are hitched to the wagon. The weak foreign policies and welcoming trade agreements toward Mexico by its two democratic and wealthy northern neighbors have not been productive. It is time for a rethink on how we should deal with Mexico, and most importantly, it is time to get tough and practice realpolitik rather than a utopian fantasy. Kicking Mexico out of the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) needs to be on the table.

Between 2005 and 2013, Mexico has been ranked from 73rd (2005) to 105th (2008) on the Failed States Index, with a near-constant ranking in the "warning" category from 94th to 98th since 2009 -- currently at 97th for 2013. The situation in Mexico is simply not improving. By comparison, Mexico's NAFTA partners are ranked 159th (USA) and 168th (Canada) -- two of the most stable countries -- and have been for many decades. Mexico is in some undesirable potential failed state company: Nicaragua, Algeria, Honduras, Venezuela, and Vietnam, to name but a few.

The Economist Intelligence Unit has Mexico ranked as a "flawed democracy" on its Democracy Index, with no measurable improvement in its overall index score since 2006, and civil liberties are on the decline. Of course, the USA and Canada have always been full democracies on this index. Freedom House ranks Mexico as only "partly free" on its Freedom in the World scale, the state Mexico has been in for almost all of the post-1973 period since this organization began ranking nations.

[righteousmomma]

Wow, this made for some very uncomfortable reading for me. Why? Too complex to explain here. Enough to say I reacted with my emotional heart and not with the practical, logical head.

Plus I am too ignorant about such matters to see how "kicking Mexico" out of the free trade agreement would help us or Canada PRESENTLY. I do not think at the present time that the U.S, wants to go down that road - NOT with the current government and leaders we have. (need I say more?)

The facts and figures and realities are certainly as listed in the article opinion but there for me PRESENTLY it should end.

 

At least with all its problems of the last 300 years Mexico has not gone into socialism/Marxism/communism that many S.A. countries are experiencing. Right now PRESENTLY that is a good thing for us and Canada.