Comments on: Marcelo Ebrard talks trade, nearshoring and US-Mexico relations in La Jornada interview

By: Enrique el profesor

Enrique el profesor — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 19:32:37 +0000

The first step to taking advantage of nearshoring is to close the Guatemalan border to unskilled labor, and fast-track work visas to Spanish speakers with highly desireable skills. If we upgrade our labor pool, foreign companies will be drawn to Mexico.

By: Bradford Burns

Bradford Burns — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 15:43:23 +0000

While many people are skeptical about how Morena will govern over the next years, I hope that the thoughtfulness of the newly appointed leaders will reflect not just their ideological goals but include the the feeling of responsibility for governing well. Comments like the below I think are a good sign of strategic thinking not just ideological bombast:

He also said that Mexico shouldn’t wait around “to see who comes,” but rather “go after the companies we’re interested in having [here].”

By: OPTIMA

OPTIMA — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 14:45:26 +0000

In reply to OPTIMA.

Comment made on OPTIMA on China is from
Ben Reina Jr. & Associates,
Engineer-Consultant,
International Affairs & Strategic Planning
Houston, Texas, 77058

By: OPTIMA

OPTIMA — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 14:39:38 +0000

In reply to Robert Burns.

Mexico has to be very careful working with China. China will make big offers to get their feet in the door. They will lay out an economic program that looks great on “paper” but that’s their “bate”. Once they get their foot in the door, China will slowly start taking over. China is a country that Mexico simply can’t trust no matter how “sweet” they make the relationship.

By: Robert Burns

Robert Burns — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 04:13:38 +0000

There’s more for México for the U.S.A. to competing with China. Far more important, in my opinion, is withdrawing from China addiction.

With my sense of history, it would be the Fifth Transformation. I think that México underappreciates the significance of its victory over tripartite imperialism of France, Spain, and England in the 19th century. I would call that weighty victory the 2nd Transformation. Now, <> México needs to avoid selling itself into an imperialist colony and avoid the mistakes that the U.S.A. made/makes on that path.

The flip side of this <> is the precipitating unilateral decision of a narco-State or failed-State that allowed Mexican sovereignty and USA sovereignty to be usurped by thug parasites.

One of the biggest barriers is Trumpian xenophobia. México in my lifetime has gone far to control its population growth and migration. However, through México as a conduit, there continues to be unacceptably high immigration by those foreign to México. I believe that should immigration be acceptably controlled (I’m not sure that even Trump can do that) there will be much more openness to Mexican labor in the USA esp. where the labor can continue to live in much cheaper México.

Maybe the peso will rise again soon.