Kate Burke

Mr. Sebestyen

H. World Regional Geography

4.3.17

The country of Mexico has been in a struggling state for a long time. There is little place

to go but forward in terms of improving Mexico's social stability, industrial improvement,

workers rights, and establishing a higher standard for the people of Mexico. For most of

Mexicos history, there has been a running standard of corruption, poor human rights, and

industrial restriction. Over this time, we have seen a transition from Spanish rule to American

imperialism, this brought many American workers to Mexico during the economic crisis. This

has created an environment of difference between different social classes. The drastic difference

between the wealthy and the poor in Mexico, is great. We should work towards closing the gap

to establish a wealthier middle class. Mexicos future reflects a strong emphasis on justice for

the people, a restoration of order and security and educational programing for peasants.

The current minimum wage in Mexico is 73 pesos or 3.90 American dollars. Recent

news states that this is projected to rise with projected consequences. It is predicted that the

minimum wage will rise to 80 pesos, or 4 American dollars. With this rise in minimum wage, it

is predicted that gasoline prices will rise, food prices will rise, along with many others. Through

past crisis, the government agency in charge of evaluating and developing social development

policies, found this insufficient to cover the basic needs set in the Mexican constitution. While

Mexico's minimum wage shows a problem to itself, the basic worker rights shows another.
Mexico has two basic federal laws that control labor issues. The two laws are the federal Labor

Law and the Federal Social Security Law. The federal labor law of Mexico creates a maximum

of 48 hours per week as the limit of hours without going overtime. Forevery6daysofwork,

workersareentitledtoonefulldayofrestwithfullpay.Anotherissueisthatunemploymentis

ontherise.3.74%ofMexicospeopleareunemployed.TheInterAmericanDevelopment

Bank,(IBD)announceda$300millionloantoMexico.Thisloanistosupportaprogramaimed

tocreatequalityjobs,providetraining,andincreaseworkerproductivity.Overthenextfive

years,thiswillresultin4millionjobreplacements.Thegoaloftheprogramistofindbetter

paidemploymentwithbetterbenefitsbyincreasingefficiencyofjobplacementactivitiesand

linkingcandidatesinterestedinjobswithskillssoughtbyemployers.Thisprogramwill

continuetohelpemploymentinMexicobecausenotonlywillithelptocreatenewjobs,itwill

helptoraisethebartootheremployers.Mexicos future reflects a strong emphasis on justice for

the people, a restoration of order and security and educational programing for peasants. With

this emphasis on justice for people, we are working towards creating better employment

standards, and towards creating more employment opportunities. Currently, the Mexican

economy relies heavily on foreign investors in Mexican factories and businesses. With those

foreign investors came foreign workers. If we close the Mexican borders, we can allow the

foreign investor to continue investing, but restrict the employment of foreign workers. This will

allow the Mexican economy to continue working with foreign investors, while opening new

employment opportunities to Mexican citizens.

 Much of Mexicos economic success is based off private equity investments. The past

has shown that most Mexican companies with private equity investments have outperformed in

their market, growing revenues and adding job. If we inject more of a private capital into

Mexicos economy, we can accelerate Mexicos growth overall. In recent times, there has been a

rise in crime, violence, and drug related violence in Mexico. Since the escalation of violence in

Mexico between criminal organizations government forces, drug related violence has killed an

estimated eighty thousand Mexican soldiers, police officers, politicians, and civilians. Mexican

authorities have had a difficult time curbing violence. But in a positive light, the government has

begun extraditing convicted drug kingpins to the US, where escape from prisons is far less likely.

The issue with this approach is that while taking drug kingpins off the street is a good idea, it

also leads to the eruption of multiple new bloodthirsty organizations. Due to its corrupted

governments, Mexico is home to one of the largest and most sophisticated drug trades in the

world. To help the drug war in Mexico, we need to think long term. to build a future where drug

crimes are limited, we must build security, and find a new form of government that drives up

uninvolved from the drug trade. much of Mexicos government is around the drug war, trade, and

notorious drug lords. We need new political officials that have no affiliation with the drug war,

and a way of abolishing it, or at least restricting it. Mexicos future reflects a strong emphasis on

justice for the people, a restoration of order and security and educational programing for

peasants. This is a restoration of order and security, and the first place to start is by eliminating

the drug game, and working to create a stable government, not run by corruption. The corrupt

government, I believe can be fixed by bringing in new political officials to study under the

current ones. we continue to fulfill the efficient programs, and following the laws doing good for

the Mexican community, while abolishing the ones that are merely bringing us down. We can do
this by bringing in fresh eyes that can see the difference between whats working, and what is

not.

Among the things that have room for improvement is Mexico's

education. There has been a large-scale growth in enrollment numbers which

has placed tremendous pressure on Mexico to determine a new way to

manage the mass quantity they must manage while also being able to

manage the quality of the education being distributed. Mexico has looked to

implement several measures looking to work with both the mass number of

students, while ensuring a quality education. To ensure both variables are

managed in an efficient way, it would make sense to, in the future, estate

national enrollment and exit exams at different levels of education. Make

sure to evaluate teachers on control of mass, and development mechanisms.

If we increase requirement for necessary schooling, enrollment numbers

should rise even more which will help to ensure that the quality is also

enforced. Improve infrastructure, and an effort to increase access to

schooling amongst impoverished and rural communities. Mexicos future reflects

a strong emphasis on justice for the people, a restoration of order and security and educational

programing for peasants. We are working towards a future with better education available to not

only peasants and impoverished communities, but being able to distribute a better education all

around Mexico. with the greater masses of students enrolled, the quality of education needs

improvement as well as the control over the number of students. This does not just apply to

peasants, while we are working towards improving their education as well.

 Mexico's future has multiple variables, while some things are certain. That is saying

there will be change, for better or worse, there will be change. With my future, we will work

towards improving workers living standards, and their working conditions, create new programs

to help increase work productivity, while creating new jobs, and helping to train and educate

perspective employees. We will work towards lowering unemployment rates, more private

economy, lowering the drug rate in Mexico. Fixing the corrupt government, and filling efficient

programs. We are working towards improving Mexico's education, and making Mexico an

overall better place. It all starts with how we choose to approach and recognize the standing

issues. Mexicos issue will not resolve themselves. We need to work from outside Mexico, and

inside to help and hope for improvement. Mexicos future reflects a strong emphasis on justice

for the people, a restoration of order and security and educational programing for peasants. My

future, will help all of this. We will work together for a stronger, safer Mexico.