Ernesto Zedillo

federal congress passed a ?law for dialogue,? which foreclosed the option of a unilateral show of force by the Mexican army in areas under Zapatista control. This legislation catalyzed the signing of the San Andrés Accords by the EZLN and the Zedillo government. The San Andrés Accords, as well as the inaccessibility of the jungles of Chiapas, made overt military action politically and tactically unviable. The EZLN?s national popularity and visibility also guaranteed its survival. Though

Democracy can be defined as people having the right to vote and those elected into government are chosen through a free and fair election process. Mexico was able to briefly become a democracy when the 71-year rule of the PRI came to an end in a transparent 2000 presidential election. The lack of voter fraud evidence made it clear that it was one of the fairest elections to date for Mexico. During the PRI power Mexico was a hybrid regime. It was disguised as a democracy that only favored those who

(IPCC), organization that has the responsibility to gather and check the scientific evidence on climate change for many years (Zedillo 13). According to Ernesto Zedillo, the IPCC in one assessment report found scientific proof about climate changes (13-14). Some regions such as Antarctica, small islands, and sub-Saharan Africa are more vulnerable to climate changes. Zedillo said, “Climate change will affect sustainable development, just as climate change itself is the result of unsustainable development”

The North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA, which was signed into law by President Bill Clinton on December 8th, 1993, went into effect on January 1st, 1994. By December of 1994, Mexico underwent a deep economic crisis, which saw the devaluation of the Mexican peso, a deterioration of wages, rampant unemployment, as well as extensive personal and corporate bankruptcies that led to the poverty and malnutrition of many of its citizens. As we explore the economic effects that NAFTA has had on

Poverty is not a simple issue. There is no universal response to it. Latin America is among the poorest of the poor. Most of its population lives in absolute poverty. Poverty is a structural problem in Latin America. Over the past three decades, there have been multiple different options offered to the poor of Latin America to better their lives. To name a few, immigration, drug gangs, informal work, and conditional cash transfers have been presented to them. The last of those four, conditional cash

legislation. The president chooses members of his cabinet, which results in them being the most influential members of the executive branch. No president has ever selected a member of an opposition party as a cabinet official until President Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León took office in December 1994. The cabinet is also divided into smaller groups such as an economic or national security cabinet, which make policy recommendations to the president or respond to his policy initiatives. The Chamber

Comparative Politics of the French and Mexican Governments The political systems of today’s world vary tremendously as you span the world. Each of these systems has gone through an evolution based on mistakes of the past and the needs of a stable and equal government. Most nations throughout the world observe political means through either Unitary or Federal legislation. The Federal government of Mexico and the unitary government of France are perfect examples of the differences and similarities

Mexico, when compared to other nations, is not frequently recognized as having the most stable governmental or regulatory bodies at the helm. Unfortunately, more often than not, this country which has undergone its fair share of reform and improvement over that past century, is still associated with a corrupted government, ineffective domestic policy, and frequent cartel-related violence. The cause of this being that in many parts of Mexican politics, including telecommunications regulation, these

There are several factors involving the Mexican government which led to the Mexican Peso Crisis. The argument has been whether sound monetary, fiscal and exchange rate policies could have prevented the crisis or foreign intervention was inviable to control the crisis because of the effect to the global community. The purpose of this paper is to show that it was the policies of the Mexican government that caused the devaluation of the peso and thus the ensuing Mexican Peso Crisis. The 1994 Mexican

On December 20, 1994, in an attempt to make Mexican products more competitive, Mexican President, Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Len, devalued the Mexican Peso. Unfortunately, attempts at keeping the Peso to only a fifteen percent devaluation failed. The Peso dropped almost forty percent (Roberts, 1). It went from 3.5 to almost 7.5 peso’s to the dollar before it stabilized. The devaluation not only sent shockwaves through the Mexican economy, but through the rest of the world. Why should the world