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Unlike a lot of the pugnacious leaders Latin America is known for, Felipe Calderón doesn't look the part of the tough guy. The new President of Mexico is short and bespectacled, an owlish lawyer and economist who evokes technocrats like Michael Dukakis. When he visited Mexican troops battling drug gangs in western Michoacán state earlier this year, Calderón donned an olive green army jacket and a five-star general's cap and was later photographed in a military Hummer. That incongruous image conjured unflattering comparisons to the tank ride that doomed Dukakis' U.S. presidential hopes...
...help remote rural towns finance businesses. "If I could sit down with Presidents Bush and Calderon in Merida, I would say, 'Look, if you want to reduce illegal immigration then help us for once build a financial system where those migrants come from,'" says Isabel Cruz, director of the Mexican Association of Social Sector Credit Unions in Mexico City. "NAFTA [the North American Free Trade Agreement] frankly hasn't done...
...that free trade is a bad thing for Latin America by any means. Since NAFTA began in 1994, Mexican exports to the U.S. have leapt from $40 billion to almost $200 billion. The problem is that, at the same time, the richest 10% of Mexicans have seen their share of national income grow appreciably while that of the poorest 10% has declined. The reason: neither free trade nor the U.S. has done much to help Latin America build the kind of institutions, like adequate schooling or functioning judiciaries, that spread that wealth through the economic bloodstream...
...Babel, which just came out on DVD, U.S. border agents are suspicious of your Mexican character's motives for crossing the border into the U.S. Has this been your experience...
...Three Mexican directors were nominated for Oscars this year: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu for Babel, Alfonso Cuaron for Children of Men and Guillermo del Toro for Pan's Labyrinth. Why the sudden recognition of these filmmakers...