By Fareed Zakaria
This past week, Los Cabos, Mexico, was quite literally turned into a global public square. Leaders from 19 top economies plus the European Union gathered to discuss the world's major crises: the euro, global growth, Syria. But the G-20 summit, as it's called, also shed light on a few crucial relationships.
Take the U.S. and Russia, for example. Much was made of how Presidents Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin leaned away from each other during talks. Commentators said it felt as chilly as a Moscow winter. Contrast that with Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao: a warm handshake and big smiles.
But the meeting that really got me thinking was the one between two Latin American leaders: Mexico's Felipe Calderon and Brazil's Dilma Roussef.
Why?
Right now, Brazil has the world’s attention. It is a much vaunted BRIC economy in the company of China, India and Russia. On the other hand, the perception of Mexico is that of a poor country with regular drug-related killings.
That may be true. But very quietly, Mexico is stepping out of Brazil's shadow.
To understand why, let me first explain Brazil's recent rise. Ten years ago, Mexico's economy was bigger than Brazil's. But then Brazil suddenly began to grow much faster, so much so that its GDP overtook Mexico's and became twice as large. If I had to cite one main reason for this, it would be China, Brazil's biggest trading partner. China's growing appetite for commodities led to a boom in resource-rich Brazil.
But just as China buys from Brazil, it competes with Mexico. After joining the World Trade Organization, Chinese manufacturers have undercut Mexican ones, selling at lower prices and in bigger quantities.
Not only that, Mexico's biggest trade partner has had its own troubles — and I'm talking about the United States of America.
But it seems we're now at another twist in the tale.
Brazil can no longer count on a sustained boom in global commodity prices. Growth has slowed from nearly 8% in 2010 to 2.7% last year. And Brazil has become uncompetitive. Its minimum wage is three times that of Indonesia and Vietnam. The World Bank ranks Brazil 126th in the world for ease of doing business.
Mexico, on the other hand, ranks 53rd. Its economy is set to grow 4% this year. Take its auto industry, for example. It generated $23 billion last year, more than oil or tourism. Mexican factories are slowly replacing Chinese products in America, thanks in part to regional trade agreements but also because China itself is facing rising labor costs.
Mexico's growth is crucial for America. The more Mexico rises, the less America will need to worry about illegal immigration. In fact, studies show migration patterns have already been reversed.
More: Immigration lessons for the U.S.
And while Brazil tries to play a role as the alternative power to America in the Western hemisphere — harkening back to the days of non-alignment — Mexico is more in tune with American ideas. It is a solid foreign policy partner.
As Mexico gears up for elections on July 1, its new president will have a long checklist of problems to fix. State monopolies need to be broken down; corruption must be confronted; creaking infrastructure needs repair. But top of the list is drug-related violence, which shaves off 1 percentage point of GDP growth every year.
Brazil remains a bigger economy, and will likely stay that way for a while.
But don't let perceptions of Mexico fool you. Despite all the violence, despite being overshadowed by its flashier neighbors, it is quietly on the rise.
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It has taken Mexico a long time!
It is a pity that Brazil has fallen prey to left wingers fairy tales, fables, policies and false propaganda.
While the " mind over matter " equation is commonly known and accepted, lesser known and understood is the reality " spirit over mind over matter ', so I will replace it with 'morals over mind over matter'.
Morals are needed to motivate the elite classes in Brazil to do what is good for the Whole Country.
Morals are needed for the civil servants to do their job without asking for bribes.
Particularly now that the minimum wage has been increased.
Morals are needed for workers to be responsable and productive.
And I can tell you now that it is not happening with terrorist Baby Genocider Roussef.
Drugs, murder, mutilation, public torture of animals, shipping all your id iot peasents to this country, yep, rising away.
Alicia, those stupids peasant as you call the Mexicans, are the people who built your houses, put food on your table and built the highways where you drive everyday. I would like to see Whites working so hard for 12 hours in the sun without complaining. I don't like it the way that you disrespect my people, as a Mexican I have the moral obligation to say how wrong you are. I would like to see my people going back to our land and leaving your America without those hands, I will see you picking fruits, vegetables, bricks, cement and wood and bending your nice back!
Alice-perhaps you should learn to spell before you go around calling other people idiots. You don't seem too terribly bright yourself. And if you were intelligent, you would know that being a peasant does not make someone an idiot–but being a small-minded bigot does.
Maria Ortega, get a clue. Not every hard job is done by a Mexican. That argument is lame, overused, and gets you no where. Develop a cogent argument sometime, and get some editing; no one is reading all that. Epic Fail.
CW: speaking of cogent...it's nowhere, not no where.
Hey Maria ... I agree Alicia is out of line, but you sound like a racial bigot yourself too ..."my people"? ... La Raza? ... get a clue ... I know many hardworking Mexicans, and I also know many hard working white and black folks. It has nothing to do with race ... it is all about character
Alicia is probably another dumb redneck.
Yeah, America had no roads and hadn't been to the moon before we were blessed with Mexicans flooding over our border. Get a clue.
Mexicans didn't build my house. Mexicans don't "put food on my table". Mexicans are cheap labor. That's it. If they are all so hard working, why can't they build Mexico into a country worth living in? I guess they don't have the intelligence.
Check Maria's spelling of "peasents". She is correct and you being american born and educated, are wrong.
"lofter", there are thousands of American retired living in Mexico, you ask them if it's worth living there. Don't believe everything the media says.
The people you describe come from every country in the world. Your generalization is false.
Maria Ortega: Are you sayig that Mexican workers were soley responsible for building the Interstate Highway system, or any other system of roadways, in the USA ? White's not working "12 hours in the sun" ? Did Mexicans build Hoover Dam, the Empire State Bld, World Trade Center, Mt. Rushmore, Golden Gate Bridge, or any other major architectural structure in the USA ? Did Mexicans settle and farm in the USA in the late 1800/early 1900's , plow the Nebraska and Kansas fields and plant and harvest millions of acres of corn, soybeans, beets, and other food-stuffs, or establish and manage huge ranches with thousands of head of cattle in the USA ? My opinion is that economically deprived white's WOULD perform 'field work' if they could, but greedy white 'boss-men' don't want to pay decent wages and they know that the Mexicans will work for low pay because, after all, it is still more than they can make in Mexico, and that the United Farm Workers of America will see to it that white's are not allowed to push the Mexicans out of their 'rightful jobs'.
People are people... There are good ones and bad ones. Most just want to work, take care of their, family and build a future. This is true around the world...
@Z_2k
You're right, none of that was done by Mexicans... It was done by Irish, Italian, and Eastern European immigrants... Why? because the existing "white" population would not do that kind of back breaking labor. It has nothing to do with race and everything to do with the ambition to take a hold of an opportunity and seize it. This country was built with wave after wave of immigration. Anyone who denies that does not have a solid understanding of the history of this county.
MARIA: We were doing all of those jobs until the illegals came and undercut us. Illegals immigrants have destroyed our economy. I hope every damned one of them are deported. We should do at our Southern border what Mexico does at theirs. You people that make Americans seem like nothing but lazy jerks are retarded. If our country is so bad, why do so many Mexicans sneak into here? Why don't they stay home and fix their own country. Legal immigrants any day, illegals deported today.
No need for bigotry. The fact is that here in México we are begining to see, little by little, a lesser need to migrate to the USA for jobs. Indeed, our economy is on a steady rise and hopefully wil reach a status where it will be more self-sufficient than now. All this in the midst of a drug war which would not exist but for the great drug demand in american siciety. Otherwise, we would be past half way to a complete economic achievement. Greetings
Alicia, before you criticize others do yourself a favor and go back to school or at least learn to spell. It will give you more credibility when you speak of pheasants, by the way and out of curiosity are you a blue blood? Surely you live in a European castle! I pity you
Wow now I know why the world hate us.
I can see you jumping the border into Mexico in the near future you poor, uneducated, ghetto-living food stamp user
Good, now the illegals can go back to where they belong and take Zakaria with them.
Self-proclaimed American,
I have a better idea. We can deport you and keep Dr. Zakaria. His intelligent and comprehensive analysis is worth much more than the stupidity coming out of so many who think the accident of birth in the US makes them somehow superior to others.
The same said the Romans and look at them now, don't worry, it is a matter of time, now you are up, and history itself have proved that all empires come to an end, good luck.
MEXICO SHOULD BE DOING GREAT, ALL THEIR POOR PEOPLE ARE IN AMERICA GETTING FREE SERVICES.
MARIA, ALL THOSE JOBS AMERICAN WORKERS USED TO DO THEM BEFORE THE ILLEGALS CAME AND LOWER THE WAGES. A FACT.
The same said the Romans.... not they didnt?
What are you talking about Maria? The Empire fell because it was weak internally and couldn't face external threats. Its armies were loyal to the generals and not the state so it was always suffering from civil war. Then massive waves of immigrants entered the empire. They agreed to help the empire, to fight its enemies in exhange for land and jobs. Then they began to extort the Empire with threats adn eventually these immigrants tore it up from the inside.
I am NOT saying that is what immigrants are doing in the US. However, if your going to draw in history do it properly. If anything the fall of the Roman Empire points to the dangers of large numbers of immigrants entering your who dont consider themselves part of it.
CAL USA, no one said that we were better. We just said that we don't want illegals here.
There is nothing superior in expecting people just to simply follow the rules.
I agree with Cal USA... I don't agree with everything Fareed writes, but he is clearly intelligent and thinks things through logically. All Americans need to do that more instead of always assuming they are right and calling each other names...
Actually we would all be better off if you left.
HI EVERY ONE..FIRST OF ALL LET ME REMIND SOME OF YOU THAT WE LATINS, OR HISPANICS,(SPAIN) DISCOVERED "AMERICA"..AND WE ALSO NAMED IT..YES..IT'S IN YOUR GOOD OLD AMERICAN HICTORY BOOKS..HAHA..I MEANT HISTORY..LOL..AND YOU ALL SELF PROCLAIMED AMERICANS HAVE TAKEN THIS NAME FOR YOURSELVES, EVEN IIMPLEMENTING IT TO PEOPLE WHO BECOME U.S. CITIZENS..CALLING THEM AMERICAN CITIZENS..WHAT..WHO GAVE YOU THE RIGHT..ANYONE BORN IN NORTH, CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA IS AUTOMATICALLY AN AMERICAN..YES..THEY DONT NEED THE U.S OF "A" TELLING YOU THAT YOU ARE NOW AN AMERICAN BECAUSE YOU PASS A TEST..HAHALOL...ITS CRAZY..LATIN AMERICAN COUNTRIES WERE ALREADY COUNTRIES WAY BEFORE THE US.A..REMEMBER THAT BEFORE PUTTING PEOPLE DOWN..
Gabriel,
1) Christopher Columbus was Italian not spanish, the spanish only financed his voyages.
2) The norwegians were here about 500 years before columbus.
3) the native americans 'discovered' american thousands of years before the norwegians.
4) Contrary to 'latino' beliefs the term 'American' has 2 uses.
a) anyone in the western hemisphere (as you use it)
b) specifically referring to the 'estadounidense'
Zakaria finally lost it. Mexico on the rise? Please!!! Teenage pregnancy is rampant and the girls cant even name the father! They kill each other as if swatting a fly! No ethics no morality and corrupt top to bottom. One day they will over run us and we are done. This supreme court just kicked us into the grave. One day they will rename the 50 states as one state: North Juarez.
Time's are changing. Mexico is on the rise (and has been). Richest man in the world is Mexican. Lets sit back, eat some pop corn and enjoy the show. As a person who has traveled the world, Mexico is a beautiful place. Take corruption and drug wars out and you have a country with unlimited potential. Mexico will never try to take over the US. Nation building has never been a part of Mexico's agenda.
Well you have a very high rate of teen pregnancy in your beloved country, even you have a tv show that shows very proudly how those teens got pregnant, so please don't even mention that part, you have a very crazy girls too.
Mister, you are an ignorant fool.
North Juarez... nice! Start learning how to write your state's name: Juárez
It is a pitty that we fall pray to imperial spokespeople and believe everything we read. Mexico's "miracle" is hardly one at all. Producing more cars for export is hardly and indicator of good economy. Mexico is ruining whatever is left of its sustainable economy. The ruling elite may be in tune with our elite, but it is more of a liability then a plus. What exactly is worth emulating from our own experience? What is so valuable about our own foreign policy that it should be a pride of Mexico to emulate? We do not understand our own economy and its structural problems. We are kicking all sorts of cans down the road, and patting ourselves on the back. The problem is, our elite economists, captains of the industry and politicians have developed a case of severe autism, and do not grasp the reality. Our financial system is a disaster, yet to be dealth with. And the endless violence in Mexico? And our shipping arms to fuel the violence? What exactly is that all about? Is it very likely an ongoing effort by the ruling Mexican elite to take over drug trade, but to do it, they must "empower" one or two druglords, and get rid of all others. Once this has been completed, the income from drugs will further bloat the same elite - fully divorced from the reality of life in Mexico. But that is happening to all the elites in the Western world. Worlds away from the reality, they fantasize geopolitical dreams of world domination and glory. The problem is, the stench of the real life around them no French parfumes can eliminate.
BIANCA--MEXICANS ARE RUINING AMERICA BIG TIME. WAGES DOWN, THANK THE ILLEGALS--$$$$$$15 BILLION A YEAR THE COST OF GIVING ILLEGALS FREE SERVICES.
WE ARE BETTER OFF WITH NO ILLEGALS AND WITH NO LEGAL IMMIGRANTS. AMERICANS WILL DO THE JOBS, BUT NOT FOR WHAT THEY PAY THE MEXICAN SLAVES.
...severe autism? That says a lot about how smart you are. I know a lot of autistic people that are smarter and more intelligent that you and all those people you complain aobut put together.
...and sorry about the spelling...
I GOT AN IDEA..LETS ALL MOVE TO ARIZONA AND TAKE OVER THE WHOLE STATE..LOL
why don't we move all the right wingers to the libertarian paradise of Haiti
One way or another the country is still there and trying to get ahead even in the face so much negative publicity and hatred against all things Mexican. The country is not at the bottom of the barrel as compared with many others, but is one of the G-20. Yes, it has many problems, but a little at atime those problems are getting solved. The ones of us here illegaly came over to work and work we do. The idea you have about us getting things for free is totally false. we sweat the shirt and get rough hands to get food and to pay the bills. I will never apologize for getting medical care after falling from a scaffold at work or for taking my baby to get her shots, nor for sending my kids to school where they may sit next to your kids. I happen to think that education is a human right which I help payfor through my rent payments' portion of property taxes. So your hatred, bigotry, and xenophobia are yours to have, but they mean nothing to me.
You can help fix those problems back in your homeland. Return to your homeland. Your 10 kids by 7 different fathers also would get a better education(especially history) in Ole Mexico. Good Luck
@ Repatriate,
And you should stop schtupping your sister you dooshcanoeing redneck.
Left wing...you have no idea what you are talking about. Brazil needs to get it's corrupt head out of it's ass just like Mexico. Mexico is making slow progress, but as we have learned conservatives want everything now, unless they are in charge...then not a damn thing gets done...such crappy misinformation!
where is tom friedman? I remember him saying that the brotherhood would at best win 20% .....
WHAT HAPPENED TOM??????????????????????????????????????????????????
Friedman is a curious fella. Sometimes, I get the feeling that he says one thing but actually rooting for another. Or he says things hoping that his words are benediction of forthcoming events and the Universe would look towards him for direction.
YES.
Why doncha ask all the teabagging haters about their prediction for the Affordable Healthcare Act. Seems they're the ones with most of the egg on their collective faces.
He probably thought that there would be at least 6 candidates competing for the votes. It turns out there were only twos!!!
One falls while another rises. Seems like Mexico should replace India in the Bric.
"India's economy: The tiger that's actually an elephant
Posted by Lisa Renaud
Investors have been disappointed by India's slowing growth, and even more sheen came off last week courtesy of S&P's downgrade. Panelists at this Global Conference session on India (full video available here) agreed that the move was justified by the macro picture.
India's coalition politics may slow reforms, said Apollo's Sanjay Patel, especially since many poor voters are not educated. "Tiger is the wrong word," he said, arguing that a lumbering elephant is a better analogy. "
Some of this is all political. Allies try to prop up and provide public relations support to a country as a gesture of returning a favor even though the growth may be artificial. India is a case in point, in my opinion. How can you have 10% growth one season and bust the other? LOL
Dont get carried away, Paki. India is too big an economy with a potential that will never get thwarted easily. These are all temporary setbacks and companies that want to make quick money and no regulation better get out of there.
Don't kid yourself either...as your name implies, India's a has been. That's the way it is per UN/World Bank/IMF statistics.
Far-Zak: " ...State monopolies need to be broken down; corruption must be confronted; creaking infrastructure needs repair..."
Good Luck! I'm even tempted to say, no way will that ever happen.
It precisely BECAUSE they are our southern neighbor that they have decided to function in this apparently disfunctional manner (but not in their eyes)...it is the path of least resistance for their elites to maintain a wonderful lifestyle.
Maybe if you could somehow pick up the entire landmass and drop it into Asia, or turn it into a big island in the middle of the ocean, would this article's predictions make sense.
I've never seen a country and its people so corrupt illiterate and immoral. They have but one future: take over the US and make it a welfare state. Hey sounds like the kid of that Nigerian guy currently living in the non white house
Immoral and illiterate? You mention that? Your people don't even know where in the world is America! Immoral? You the first country in the world that smoke pot and are the number one consumers of drugs? You made me laugh with your silly comment, you are a perfect example!
If you haven't seen more corrupt then did you crawl back into the hole you crawled out of during the Bush regime? now that you already have crawled out please paythe 11 trillion upaid Bush debt back to us Americans
I have relatives in Mexico and they have no intentions to coming into the United States of America, trust me.
Dryback – what a laugh, how could it be, after crossing the entire Atlantic Ocean to get to the Americas? Second, talk about corruption, the good ole USA represents 05% of the world population but consumes 80% of the worlds drugs, who's more corrupt, no morals, on the downturn... And while you're at it, change your name to "sooking-wetback"
Racist will continue to disrespect and try and divide our nation...they are the problem! Liars and self righteous out for themselves and no one else!
So tell me Maria Ortega, where in the U.S. do you live? Viva Mexico am i right? You live in the U.S. but are completely loyal to Mexico, you're a coward and a disgrace.
Jose,
The only disgrace here is you! I bet if a white person tells you to jump, you'll respond 'how high'!
And you, Mr. Lopes are a tio taco...!!
Again...racists with nothing but bigotry and hatred in their hearts...nothing for their country, just selfish hate.
JOSE LOPEZ..WAIT A MINUTE..THIS NAME SOUNDS LIKE..NAHH..IT CANT BE...YOU HAVE A SPANISH NAME SO BY DEFAULT YOU ARE A HISPANIC..OR LATINO..WHATEVER..I GUEST YOU THINK OF YOURSELF AS AN AMERICAN..BETTER THAN YOUR MEXICAN BROTHERS..HEY STUPID..YOU KNOW WHAT THE WHITE MAN SEES WHEN THEY SEE YOU...YEAH..A WETBACK..YES SIR MR. LOPEZ..IT DOESNT MATTER WHAT TYPE OF WORK YOU DO..IF YOUR NAME IS LOPEZ..YOU ARE A WETBACK TO THEM..SORRY TO TELL YOU MAN..BUT SOMEONE HAS TO BREAK IT TO YOU..EVEN IF YOU WERE BORN HERE..OR IF YOU ARE A CITIZEN..ITS ALL THE SAME..SO LOOK IN THE MIRROR FOOL BEFORE YOU GO SPITTING UP IN THE AIR COS IT WILL FALL BK IN YOUR FACE MR. LOPEZ..
At the end of GPS, June 24, you mentioned an author and book about future trends. Would you please send me the reference–I can't find in on this website. Thanks, Sam Henrie
Would some one post the name of the author and book that Mr.Zakaria referenced at the end of today's show? Thanks
We are pleased to read what you write.
HEY AMERICAN HELP US BUILD DEMOCRACY IN MEXICO, IT WILL BE GOOD FOR YOU GUYS TOO! PASS THE WORD
ANDRES MANUEL LOPEZ OBRADOR FOR PRESIDENT!
Lopez Obrador? Sure! That is if you want another populist president like Mr. Chavez from Venezuela or Evo Morales from Bolivia.
Lopez Obrador does not even know those presidents, that is the image that Televisa (Television monopoly) is trying that everybody’s believes, by the way, the Lopez Obrador's ideas are more related with eliminate corruption, improve education, eliminate monopolies to create perfect markets, unfortunately he is against manipulation of the biggest Television companies Televisa and biggests monopolies of the country.
I do not agree with you. Andres Manuel is not a good choice for Mexico. This is the individual that self-proclaimed as the legitimate president of Mexico in 2006. What is this crazy guy going to do if he actually has power?? I do not want to risk it.
MAYBE THE MEXICANS IN AMERICA SHOULD GO BACK TO MEXICO, MAKE MEXICO WORK FOR YOU..
WHY COME TO AMERICA AND RUINED ANOTHER COUNTRY ?? LOL
sure we can help you build an economy like Iraq regular premium and deluxe Haliburton is ready
ILike the point and read about this here too:
http://makingpolicysense.wordpress.com
Topographically Brazil is in a better position than Mexico. Brazil is flater and much igger, hence it has been able to use its land for farming. As an agricultural superpower it's one of the main grocers of the world Recently the country has overtaken the U.K. as the sixth-biggest economy in the world. Yet state-planning is still part of the economic game. Rising bureaucracy and corruption might be obstacles to its development. Mexico has been under one-party rule for decades. Perhaps the vicinity to the U.S. might help Mexico grow and modernise step by step.
Pardon me....posted in wrong spot before.
The correlation between geograpical elevation and prosperity seems unsubstantiated among nations. It certainly has romantic connotations in musical melodies such as "Ain't no mountain high enough...Ain't no valley low enough......" Secondly, the biggest hindrance to Mexico's growth has been close proximity to USA. Most neighbors/friends of USA have lagged behind. Americans are bad karma...is ...I suppose, a hypothesis worth pondering.
Z: With regard to your comment that Mexico's problem is it is too close to the U.S. ("close proximity", which seems redundant), Mexican President Porfirio Diaz many decades ago said "Poor Mexico: so far from God and so close to the United States." Perhaps you are channeling his soul.
Explain Canada?
Interesting. My comment was more geopolitical than spiritual and in the context of a logical supposition.
Thank you Karnack...you have no idea what your are talking about...just another divider and hater living in our country. You trash America...where are you going to live that is so much better? No substance, just BS FOX news speak trying to lead the brain dead.
@Bud [June 25, 2012 at 11:39 am] said:
"Explain Canada?"
I do contract work for a manufacturer in Ontario, and he tells me all the time, "When America sneezes, Canada gets the flu." Proximity to the USA DOES hold Canada back.
Mexico is no longer under a one-party rule... it hasn't since 2000! It may not have a "very strong" democracy yet but I think it's a work in progress.
Name a country with "strong democracy". Our two party system is rigid and does not allow for diversity of political ideas. And both parties are absolutely indistinguishable - except for some show "issues" so they can look and feel different. in substance, none of them have any ideas, and the result is structural hardening of arteries and our ailing economy and finances. No ideas outside of party rigid structures can ever penetrate.
Please, the last 12 years have been under other party administrations. The less input they get from the North, the better off it will be.... example: Mexico had a debt ratio to GNP of only 26%, USA has one at 103%. Mexico is a net Exporter, the USA is a net Importer. Mexico has developed it's middle class over the last 20 years, The USA has destroyed it's middle class. Doing bussiness in Mexico is getting easier every year and they are dismantleing Monopolies, the USA is more difficult every year and is creating facist governent/corporate monopolies each time the congress votes......
YOU REALLY NEED TO CHECK YOUR INFO..........by the way, I am an american who has lived and worked in Mexico for 20 years........
50% of the problem with Mexico is that it has a drug addicted neighbor
really drug addicted nieghbor were do you think mexico gets half there drugs from the usa there dealed not to us from us...
The correlation between geograpical elevation and prosperity seems unsubstantiated among nations. It certainly has romantic connotations in musical melodies such as "Ain't no mountain high enough...Ain't no valley low enough......" Secondly, the biggest hindrance to Mexico's growth has been close proximity to USA. Most neighbors/friends of USA have lagged behind. Americans are bad karma...is ...I suppose, a hypothesis worth pondering.
Sorry. Reposted above where it should have been.
Don't get your hopes up. Mexico has always been a failed state and doesn't have nearly the resources of Brazil.
I think you need to travel. you obviously are quoting some extinct textbook.
Good for Mexico!!!
Cant't wait for Mexico to win the damn World Cup! But in the mean time, I hope Italia wins the EUFA Cup!
If US want to stop or reduce immigration, drugs trafic and violence on the borders, Mexico has to growth, this is a good beginning!! Good for MEXICO... and that would be a good market willing to buy from the US, anxious of buying goods.
mexico is looking more like the old united states and the united states is looking more like old mexico–republican greed
People say and can be so tough hiding behind a computer screen. saddens me.
Mexico is a great country with great people.
Now lets be real. Stay on topic and look at this objectively.
But since its been brought up.
The middle east is just not a nce or good place, simply put its 100's of years behind western, the americas, latin american and most asian civilizations. Even with the unreal amount of wealth and as its squandered beyond belief, The fanatical religous beliefs simply show how backwards the population still is to this day. Stonings beheadings etc. I lived in "the land civilization forgot" for some time. Not pleasent to say the least.
Sorry to rain on your party but the following may enlighten you perhaps and open up your horizons a tad bit.
It appears to me that Muslims are the fastest growing segment of world society today. As others are withering away the Muslims seem to be rising again with their contributions as was the case historically when they ruled India and Europe and left behind a legacy of science, art, architecture, culinary et al. One only needs to go to Spain and India to witness this. As immigrants, it is a good thing to be aware of your glorious heritage and be connected with it. The Italian immigrants do it as do the Germans, Polish, Jewish, Hispanic and many other cultures. What really pleasantly surprised me was what I witnessed in the Middle East. A tolerant society that has come so far in a few years. Most importantly providing job and economic opportunities to all, Hindus/Indians, Jews, Christians, Muslims, Europeans, Americans, Africans, South Americans, Chinese, and Russians etc. Never have I witnessed such openness and equal opportunities unless you go back to the times of Muslim rule in India and Spain. My conclusion is that the Muslims get it. They are striving to once again take their leadership role in the world order and take this civilization to its next level of excellence. The climb to success and progress is not a linear curve but a stochastic one. Let us join in wishing our Muslim brethren well and much success in their endeavors. If we can't help them let's not pull the rug from under them.
You are very funny!–a big time liar but, nonetheless, very funny.
Muslims danced at the sight of 911 in the United States. Are you a dancer as well?
I think alot of this prosperity had its start in the drug-trade. Look at Miami as an example. It is a rich city yet I cant figure out any legal way that money got down there.
Try a huge wealthy retirement community, a huge international tourist draw and very successful farming practices.
And, some drug dealing.
The only thing America should do in Mexico is bussiness. Whenever they meddle in politcs, they destroy perfectly good nations..........just read the headlines from the last 20 years.
India should not have been part of BRIC at all. Even Somalia etc will surpass India in 40 years and India will be the way it has always been. 400 million people defecate in public to this day! $ 300 billion dollars from scams split by handful of people in the last 3 years! 500 million people make less than 2 $ per day.
Agreed.
What has India got to do with this, you frekinPakiMoron?
I see a Paki troll defecating on this thread..watch out for that drone and run to cave!
Everything is relative you friggin hundy indian. You people still can't read?
Have you heard the song..".What's love got to do with it." ?
this is for you @Alex....Get in the bunker swami.
Once upon a Mumbai dreary, while the Indian Army pondered weak and weary.....
While they nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at their bunker door.
"'Tis some visiter," they muttered, "tapping at our bunker door —
Only this and nothing more."
What say you? Quoth the talibans… What say you?
It ain’t no visiter….so to speak…’tis…the talibans…2 or 3 but Not More.
We come in peace and nothing more…only in peace and nothing more...to tickle you to heart’s content.
To sing you some bhajans and maybe more....so go back to sleep Evermore.
Quoth the talibans, Evermore".
And when you wake up we will be long gone…but we will be back____will be back
This time in New Delhi….we will be back____
Quoth the talibans…. we are coming back!!!!.
Can Mexico get on with being "on the rise" and not ship its people to the U.S.? Actually, that goes for all 3rd world nations. If you're a rising emerging superstar or whatever, then GET ON WITH IT and don't expect America or other developed Western nations to allow themselves to be flooded by immigration.
Actually we could use quite a bit of immigration from India and China. You see, we for whatever reason have put out countries education on the back burner and our students aren't competing well in science/math. Some technology companies are even complaining that they have jobs, but Americans can't fill them. They are literally recruiting from other countries to come here.
How can you Mr. Zakaria, make light of a comment by the dictator Fidel Castro? No, he no longer makes long speeches, but he represents a bloody and brutal regime and taking his tweets about Yoga as a cute remark lowers the standards of your program.
Respectfully.
Everytime 3 or 4 mexicans get together one of them wants to be a generalissimo.
Hurray for a slave labor force!!!
TOUGH TIMES IN INDIA: FOREIGN FIRMS PACKING AND RUNNING FOR EXITS
“NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: Frustrated by a lack of opportunities in India, Germany's Fraport (FRAG.DE), the world's No. 2 airport operator, is shutting its development office in the country, the latest in a growing list of companies exiting Asia's third-largest economy.
"When we came to India in 2006, we were actually extremely bullish about the market. We felt India had a lot of potential at that time," Ansgar Sickert, who heads Fraport's India operations, told Reuters in a telephone interview on Friday.
"We were disappointed when none of these opportunities materialized," said Sickert.
The list of companies to leave India includes telecoms carriers Etisalat ETEL.AD of Abu Dhabi and Bahrain Telecommunications Co BTEL.BH. Another firm, Norway's state-backed Telenor (TEL.OLhas threatened to pull out…..
India definitely faces the threat of more foreign companies signaling an exit in the near future, as well as warding off new entrants. …
According to a Nomura report last month, multinationals pulled $10.7 billion out of the country in 2011, up from $7.2 billion in 2010 and $3.1 billion in 2009.
"Augere, which owns 4G broadband airwaves in one of India's 22 telecoms zones, has stopped operational activities and is set to sell its airwaves due to regulatory uncertainties, the Economic Times reported last month.
Was a house of cards to begin with.
PAKISTAN.....The New Gateway to Central Asia and Europe.
With a population of over 180 million most of whom are well educated, English speaking, entrepreneurial and a cultural and social fit with Central Asians...Pakistan will now become the new face and gateway to Central Asia and Europe. Pakistan will thus span this region and provide the impetus for growth, prosperity and unity among these countries. These are new and exciting times for Pakistanis who should now look forward to their new leadership role aligned with Central Asia and Europe rather than the Subcontinent. We wish them much success as they have sacrificed the most during the past 30 + years creating a new world order
These are powerhouses that were deliberately kept back by world powers as they unsuccessfully tried to build a new paradigm. Unfortunately, that alll failed following 2001 and then after 2008 and unleashed the Mexicos, Indonesias and Pakistans of the world out of nowhere. More is yet to come for the better for these countries. These are some of them that will lead the prosperity charge going forward.
Mexico and Brazil will both likely be major powers in the 21st century but ignorant Americans focus on the slums and illegal immigration and think they will always be poor and backward, forgetting that the U.S. became the wealthiest country in the world after starting out as one of the poorest and most backward. Times change.
Mexico should be "on the rise".
They have dumped their poor on to US tax payers for decades.
When you can find some other idiot to pay your bills for you, you become more affluent.
I hope Zakaria shares this info with the current Mexican presidential candidates. In two past debates one of the four candidates recognized that Mexico had to increase trading ties with China and raise its own GDP by investing on exploiting its resources. The other three had no clue what the other one was talking about and went for the easy and broad fixes i.e. poverty, corruption, crime.... If Mexico is to succeed, they need an individual that will lead them out of the status quo, the mentality of national sovereignty and relying on its own knowledge and not asking for help from other countries is just outdated
Geez, you would think it is Americans crossing the border in droves to get to the border into Mejico. What a joke!
Suckaria may be smart but has a hidden agenda almost every time. Any idea what he seems to Be trying to do now? Perhaps he is getting us to believe Mexxans are not as bad as we think, that their economy is going to be helping us?
Migration patterns are reversing due to our lack of jobs , not the preponderance f Mexican ones. This point is wishful thinking on Zak's part.
Stick to the middle east–you at least have something to say about that part of the world that I may be more apt to believe.
Zakaria is a cook and Mexico is a failed state.
I love cat tacos!
Come to think of it, this is an infomercial. No doubt that Mexico has many great things, but thanks to our media we seldom see anything other then sad children with running noses and flies. But this story of economic miracle, and solid "foreign policy partnership" is a sales job. Looks like a reward to Mexico with good PR, and that is that. Its economy is still following the failed path of ultraliberal economic religion that is destroying our own productive people and the American life that generations in this country buiilt. But watch, should Mexico stray from the path, suddenly we will become "concerned" about their economy, and point out all the ills that we happily ovelooked before. Just like India. The mess there was not ever a concern for as long as they follow the path of being our door(mat) into Asia. I guess India has displeased us somehow, because now we see all the problems with its economy and poverty. All the things that were there from the beginning of time. Not that long time ago, they were the "lagest democracy in the world", and now they are a butt of jokes. Such economic musings anybody can write - one just needs to "get a memo" to know if it is a time to find gushing words of praise, or heap contempt and abuse on everything they stand for.
Mexico is not a solid foreign policy partner to the United States. Never has been, never will be. Not that it is important.
The United States needs to get its house in order. If the United States makes intelligent decisions, then it can easily do without Mexico.
The facts no one wants to read.
Alright! lets immigrate to AmeriKKKA
Fareed - if you are so certain that Mexico is on the rise.......why don't you move there?
All Mexicans living in the US will report to the nearest Deportation Center immediately ! There you will be put in a boxcar and sent back to that failed sh!thole you call Mexico.
I think you have india mixed up with Mexico.
So this means they'll stop coming here? I certainly hope so!
I am sorry but these 'white' americans should really look into the numbers. Mexico is indeed within the top 20 economies in the world, hence, summit taking place in Mexico. Every country has its poor people that are striving to succeed and may consider immigrating. Any of us would consider migrating into another country to obviously succeed, it is human nature. Don't under estimate Mexicans, it'll come bite you in the ASS when these become your bosses, and discriminate against you. KARMA is a B, so watch out. But in all honesty, the GDP numbers don't lie so just focus on that and change the idea that Mexico is dirt poor, illiterate, etc.
Vive Le Mexico"
Good luck to Mexico.
Same to Pakistan...the new powerhouse in South Central Asia. Vive Le' Pakistan.
PAKISTAN.....The New Gateway to Central Asia and Europe.
With a population of over 180 million most of whom are well educated, English speaking, entrepreneurial and a cultural and social fit with Central Asians...Pakistan will now become the new face and gateway to Central Asia and Europe. Pakistan will thus span this region and provide the impetus for growth, prosperity and unity among these countries. These are new and exciting times for Pakistanis who should now look forward to their new leadership role aligned with Central Asia and Europe rather than the Subcontinent. We wish them much success as they have sacrificed the most during the past 30 + years creating a new world order.
All of this racist crap is disgusting. Fact is, we have created an economy that is dependent on Mexicans. We need their sales tax income, their acceptance of low wages, and the skill sets they bring. Are you telling me there are Americans who would get up at 4am to go and wait all day in the hot sun to do any kind of labor they are asked? Mexicans are some of the hardest working people in this country, which anyone who grew up around them knows. That is why even GWB tried to tone down the racism of the GOP, he knew more of the truth.
Racist reactions are by definition ignorant and are a sad sign of collectivism, something that many right wingers claim to abhor. If only hypocrisy was a fatal disease...
Great! Now maybe the illegals will go home!
To Europe?
Said the Native American.
To the Aztec as he cut out his heart.
Instead of blaming illegal immigrants why don't you blame the companies that hire them. You like to insult these people but the fact is that white Americans are the ones that hire them because they know that these illegal immigrants can do far a better job in less time than regular Americans would. Just imagine how many smoke break an American has to take during his/her shift? LOL. Anyways, next time you see a hispanic on the street instead of saying "those d amn illegals" why don't you say "those d amn employers"
Better yet Joshua, they should say damn the federal government for not securing the border and enforcing the immigration laws.
Maybe if the Mexican created a Mexican Spring, they won't need to sneak into the United States. It's time for them to man up. If the Arabs can do it, under far worse conditions, the Mexicans certainly can !!
The point Willie is that the arabs are not doing anything.
Just regressing.
The Aghori or Aghouri is a Hindu cult that is considered to have split off from the Kapalika order in the fourteenth century AD. They have cannibalistic rituals. The streets of northern Indian cities are littered with followers of this cult carrying a kapala, which is a cup made from a skull! These bizarre people will eat anything from rotten food to animal faeces. In order to achieve the highest citadel of enlightenment, the Aghori will perform horrendously crude rituals. The finality of their rituals is attained from eating the decaying flesh of a human.
Vive Le' Mexico. We are much more civilized than that.
Great article Mr.Farid, How disappointing however that the majority of your readers, and I say the majority, not all of them are a bunch of idiots. Obviously most of them did not even get what you were trying to communicate. Some of them are quite funny I must admit, especially the Uncle Tom Latinos voicing nonsense just to suck up to whoever they perceive as true Americans. Mr.Farid I appreciate the article because it is a positive note found among an ocean of negativity and sensationalism.
Well said, I am of the same persuasion. Just too many uninformed and unread idiots. Heck, some don't even know that Mexico is in north america and some couldn't find it on a map.
Yes, truly sad. Mostly due to the significant budget cuts our education system has taken trying to educate so many illegal aliens and anchor baby kids in this country.
California school year is about to go from 175 days to 160 days a year. Warning for the rest of you states considering the Dream Act.
JOSE0311USMC – Mexico is in America. Go back to school.
Let's hope Fareed knows of what he speaks. The mexican people deserve so much more than they've been given so far.
Ever notice how "opportunity" for non-white people means "living in a white built nation"?
Apart from Asians, nobody else on the planet seems to be able to take care of themselves or build anything worthwhile. Just an observation.
Yeah, have to agree. I've travelled in Mexico. Emigration hurt that country. A corrupt government, a country no one cares about, hopelessness and poverty- a place where they force you into the military as a teenager and force women to give birth to babies they don't want. Who made money on illegal immigration? Big agriculture. The housing market. The financial industry. Politicians.
If all Mexicans have to be deported immediately, what about all americans. Do all of you go back to the old countries and can the natives have their land back?? What about that? America was built by emigrants. What's the difference if you stole this land in the 1800's or if you want to built a future for your family in the year 2012? And yes the pioneers stole this country, it wasn't given to them...
Nice try but giving yet more away so that they can grow economically is not the US's concern. And I would like to see the laws change so that illegals can be shot or detained for a time and used as labor so that they dont cost the US anything . This I believe would stop the flow because they wouldnt profit at all and possibly lose their lives. Now they play the game of deport and come back deport comeback
Does anyone else want to put a bullet in their head after reading the comments under this article?
You first.
Dear sir.
I hear they have the best social programs of any country in the world. They simply take their needy to the border and point to the USA.
most importantly, as mexico becomes more prosperous, hopefully more people will see the drug business as too risky and opt instead for an honest source of income.
Mexico is doing great because thier citizens are living off the America taxpayer. If my neighbor paid to take care of my kids I'd have a ton more money too.
Maybe Mexico would be doing even better, and have improved sooner, if all its best and brightest had stayed home to fix their own country?
I think we should now demand that Mexico change their immigration laws to allow U.S. citizens to come and go and work and get free education and health care whenever we fell like it.
As a matter of fact you can go in and out of Mexico as you please; you need a passport to go back into the U.S though, make sure you get one because it sure sounds like you have never been outside the U.S.
What you say, quietly on the rise, while dealing endemic corruption, lack of infrastructure, and inefficient state monopolies?
Yeah, right.
Mexico has been "quietly on the rise" for the last hundred years, right into the pockets of the ruling elite.
Mexico hasn't had a functional government in centuries.
Nor has the USA, big business runs the country not the politicians. The politicians are just puppets for the money making business who hold all the power and have all the say about what happens.
Fareed, Thats what I am talking about. We as a neighbour owe to Mexico in developing there economy and strengthening them. Romney should rather take this approach to illegal Immigration versus accepting gross failure in enforcement or laws.
It's so funny how everybody comments like he or she is an Einstein. Fact is the real powerful people who control this world don't even know you and don't care to, you're just dust in the wind to them. So all of your hating comments accomplish nothing but an ulcer to you!
All we are is dust in the wind – you like? Might make a good song.
It seems to me that with all the comments on Mexicans and how they should go "home" that something is being forgotten here.
Mexico owned a substantial part of the so called USA previously; therefore Mexicans were legally there long, long before any of the so called "white people" who seem to think for some reason they have belong there more than the Mexicans do.
Where did you get this idea? If your education system was any good you would know your history better and realize that they were there first. Before you jump all over about how "good" your education system is try googling where the USA sits in the world wide tests for maths and sciences, very poor for a so called first world country.
I have met Americans who did not even know where some of the states were in their country and others who had never even heard of some of the states. Unbelievable !!
We got that idea because back in the bad old days we took it from the Mexicans. Ever country on Earth was trying it. We provoked a war under the guise of Manifest Destiny. I am not saying it was right, but it's a done deal. There is no way we will ever give it back, so deal with the Realpolitik. It is a fact that we have done more with this land that the Mexicans or Indians ever would have. By your line of reasoning, every person on Earth should live in Africa. This is a different time, and a different world. You can put that argument where the sun doesn't shine. People like you probably support shelter cities and amnesty. The illegals have destroyed our economy, for the benefit of Big Business, yet you seem content with that. What a piece of work.
I agree with you 100%. It was originally the Mexicans land to begin with, but it was stolen. Don't care how long ago it happened. I mean lets be honest here, how can Americans call Mexicans illegal when they themselves are illegal...been sitting on stolen land for centuries and then try to tell the natives of the land he's an illegal immigrant. What a joke!
I am a Mexican born and raised U.S. citizen. I spent a few years in the U.S. Army and now live in California. I have seen lazy and hardworking people of all races. America was built by people of all races that came from all over the world. Get over the racial and nationalistic thoughts. Be happy with what you got out of life or better yourself; don't blame other people for your deficiencies.
Amen!
Francisco you make a great point. I'm white but from a city with a VAST majority of hispanics and having grown up with that culture, I can tell you there are great Mexicans and those that leach. Leaching however, isn't a uniquely Mexican trait it's just that the Mexican plight is very visible right now. I look forward to a time when Mexico is stable enough to its citizens they no longer need to exodus.
¡Viva México!
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As Americans what the Law Makers show the 5 US Banks and large Corportations are busy setting up shop in Mexico. The next housing boom will be Mexico as investers look to place their money for profit. The same plan used in the USA that brought down the housing industry wil be used in Mexico. The loans will be accepted and fixed as it was done in the USA and there will be billions to be made. Newt Gingsrich will join in for his History experience used in the US. Mitt Romney has already invested in Wal-Mart in Mexico and his son is looking for redevelopment deals. The crooks have moved on and will return after Obama leaves office and fixes the US Economy. As people around the World rebuild their incomes the Mexican second home will be nice. The Mexican drug dealers will know their place and stay in it. The damage has been done and the crooks will come back to the USA when the country has been repaired. Now Alderson/Macau Chinese Mafia did good by teaming up with Mitt as they have a foot in the door to Mexico and will use their corrupt gambling there next.
When will someone finally kill this sandnggr????
To Fareed Zakaria,
Perhaps the perceptions you metioned at the beginning of your article when you said "Mexico is that of a poor country with regular drug-related killings" are those of ignorant, low or un-educated Americans who have no clue about their our country, let alone their neighbours or the rest of the world. Certainly lots of Americans think Mexico is a poor country relative to the US, and that is true, but Mexico in perspective is NOT a poor country. It has the 3rd largest economy in the hemisphere and is placed within the top 3 on income per capita in Latin America on PPP. It's richer than Brazil in PPP (especially since the real is mega overvalued) and is well into the top middle income countries in the world, although with still lots of [poverty that needs to be erradicated.
But just to be clear Fareed, Mexico is not Nigeria or Pakistan, which are REALLY poor countries with lots of issues and violence of their own who have nothing to do with with countries like Mexico.
It is pathetic and disgusting how some Americans are so condescending on Mexico (and other countruies as well) as if their country was perfect. Get a really check and accept that you are not all that!
It's amazing to see all the racism and ignorance that still exist in this beautiful country. I truly hope you are the minority or it will be this country's undoing.
Man,
I do not ever want to see n**ers jumping the fence into Mexico hehehehe
Man, I can talk shyatt.
As a muslim, my allah the magnificent and moohamed tell me I can kill, lie, degrade, debase, abuse, pretend...
don.t worry this contruy will fall soon it will be worrse then mexico.just like rome.rome is on the rise again.is in the bible. they will rule again including china and other contruys .
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On a global scale Mexico is not poor, and it has a higher per capita income than Brazil; in terms of violence, that is limited to some regions, and is nowhere comparable to a war zone.
Your self-proclaimed "land of opportunity" is already transitioning as just another one of the world's failed empires by preparing to adapt into its future role as the U.W.M.A., a.k.a. the United Wal-Marts of America. Yes, you're all a bunch of "Wal-Martian" AmeriCAN'Ts in the making.....
The future of the U.S.A. is in its WAL-MART empire!!
we... Mexicans and latin americans will get our land back , and nobody can stop us, Its God will.
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Saeed: Seems a bit of an overstatement.
Acid? Shouldn't u be in a cave somewhere?
Hey saeed, phukkk you. Acid throwing is the only thing your culture is good at. Stay in jihadistan. We have gunns in the US, and we can shooot straight.
religion of peace, my azz. If you want to live your words, then get rid of your computer since it is a western invention. stop using the english language. its also not tool late for your mama to abort you.
I doubt very much that this saeed guy is muslim or arab. More likely an impersonator trying to fan the flames. People need to remember that you don't know anything about the person making a comment online.
stop it. yoo r giving indians bad name. Everybody knows.
Fake or not, is there a button somwhere on this site to get such posts flagged?
What if I told that your religion, like all other religions, is all a lie and the cause for the hatred and violence in your heart?
Saaeed – you seem proud of yourself.
Only a coward theatens children.
Scrum bag!
Another impersonator who is actually a hindu indian. Probably Saeed.
...or pakistani
I betcha this person is an Indian Hindu impersonator trying to make others look bad. These indians always stab you in the back.
I bet you he is a muslim Phukk and he knows exactly what he is saying.