Word: mexicanization
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...Canadian border separates the U.S. from 31 million people; the Mexican border divides us from 97 million--or 440 million if you count all the way to Chile. So which is more important--and which has more impact...
...that made sense, since the job up for grabs in this debate was that of mayor of Jerez, a city 1,500 miles southeast of Los Angeles in the Mexican state of Zacatecas. So numerous--and influential with voters back home--are the town's L.A. refugees that none of the wannabes dared to run without wooing people in California. "They tell their families their observations about us," says candidate Alma Araceli Avila Cortes of the Institutional Revolutionary Party. "They have moral authority with the people back in Jerez...
...Mexico. Migration patterns from south to north have become so routine that you can't get elected governor of the southern state of Puebla without campaigning in New York. And the road to the governor's job in the state of Chihuahua runs through Dallas. As more and more Mexicans leave home for points north, the nation's politicians--and its electorate--become increasingly Americanized. The farther away from Mexico City (and the closer to the border), the more independent-minded, entrepreneurial and individualistic the population becomes. Such thinking was once considered too "American" by many in Mexico...
...more embodies this shift than the Mexican President, Vicente Fox Quesada. His election last year was a political earthquake, in part because it broke the 71-year-long one-party rule of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or P.R.I. Fox spent most of his business career working in Mexico City for Coca-Cola, the quintessential American company, and he likes to say--much as Ronald Reagan did--that U.S. business practices can be used to reform federal government. More important, he is culturally a norteno, given to blunt talk, a distrust of the Mexico City bureaucracy and open admiration...
...will need every ounce of his formidable charisma to get that measure approved. If he can sell the Mexican public on the idea, he will still have to get the measure approved by a Congress whose members, by law, cannot succeed themselves, giving them little incentive to respond to public opinion. But that too may be changing because of rising awareness that one-term members of Congress lack the expertise to check and balance the presidency effectively...