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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: SilentZ who wrote (341437)6/26/2007 6:07:39 PM
From: combjelly  Read Replies (3) of 1576601
 
""Cleaning up your own act" when you have close to nothing is much more easily said than done."

True. But why do they have close to nothing? They have mineral wealth, including oil and gas, they have agriculture, they have excellent harbors, they even have a reasonable pool of educated people. Not to mention very close access to US markets. Yet Mexico has not benefited from globalization and the outsourcing that the US companies have been engaged in.

The biggest reason? Corruption. Any manufacturing has to be done right at the border. If the trucks stray too far, they vanish. And the ones most likely to do the vanishing are the federales. It is very difficult to do business in Mexico without a convoluted system of bribes and kickbacks. And even then, the ones you bought don't stay bought. But tend to be extremely likely to freelance at a moments notice. Screwing foreigners is considered to be an art form.

So development has passed them by. Not because of racism. But because it is more trouble than it is worth.
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