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Potpourri
100
In Latin America it was known as the “lost decade” where Latin American countries reached a point where their foreign debt exceeded their earning power and they were not able to repay it.
What is Debt Crisis?
100
An independent organization responsible for counting votes, registering parties, registering people to vote and more related to Mexican elections. Current/previous party affiliates can't work for it.
What is Federal Electoral Institute?
100
Term limit of the President of Mexico.
What is Sexeno?
100
President of Mexico from 1970 to 1976. Opposed American expansionism.
Who is Luis Escheverria Alvarez?
100
A term traditionally used in Spain and Latin America for people of mixed heritage or descent.
What is Mestizo?
200
A socioeconomic classification applied to several countries around the world by political scientists and economists. Countries whose economies have not yet reached developed country status but have, in a macroeconomic sense outpaced their developing counterparts.
What is Newly Industrializing Country (NIC)?
200
One of the three main political parties in Mexico. The party’s platform is Right-wing.
What is PAN (Partido Accion Nacional, or National Action Party)?
200
Employs 20-percent of Mexican civilians.
What is Bureaucracy?
200
A volunteer in the Reform War and then a leader of the successful rebellion against the French intervention. Known as a dictator; his leadership, however, was marked by significant internal stability
Who is Porfirio Diaz?
200
A Spanish word for estate, these included plantation, mines, or even business factories and were meant to be self-sufficient.
What are Haciendas?
300
A trade and economic policy that advocates replacing foreign import with domestic production.
What is Import Substitution?
300
A Mexican political party that held power in the country under a succession of names for 71 years. It is considered centrist.
What is PRI (Partido Revolucionario Institucional, or Institutional Revolutionary Party)?
300
The lower house of the Congress of the Union; Mexico’s bicameral legislature.
What is Chamber of Deputies
300
First president elected from the opposition party since Madero in1910. Currently serves as co-President of the Centrist Democrat International.
Who is Vicente Fox?
300
An area of communal land used for agriculture, on which community members individually possess and farm a specific parcel.
What are Ejidos?
400
The policies implemented by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank in developing countries.
What is Structural Adjustment?
400
A Mexican state-owned company. It is the world’s second largest non-publicly listed company by total market value.
What is PEMEX (Petroleos Mexicanos)?
400
The upper house of Mexico’s bicameral Congress made of 128 senators.
What is Chamber of Senators (of the Honorable Congress of the Union)?
400
A Mexican politician affiliated to the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) who served as 52nd President. He was a market-oriented President.
Who is Miguel De La Madrid?
400
An agreement signed by the government of Canada, Mexico, and the U.S, creating a trilateral trade bloc in North America.
What is North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)?
500
The Mexican name for manufacturing operations in a free trade zone (FTZ), where factories import material and equipment on a duty-free and tariff-free basis for assembly, processing, or manufacturing and then export the assembled, processed and/or manufactured products, sometimes back to the raw materials’ country of origin.
What is Maquiladora?
500
Refers to either the Liberation Army of the South (Ejercito Libertador del Sur) (ELS) which was an armed group that took part in the Mexican Revolution or a revolutionary leftist group based in Chiapas that is associated with the wider alter-globalization, anti-neoliberal social movement, and the seeking of indigenous control over their local resources, especially land.
What is Zapatista?
500
Secretariat of the Interior, often shortened to SEGOB is the Cabinet-level agency of Mexico responsible for administering the country’s internal affairs, similar to other country’s interior ministries.
What is Secretaria de Gobernacion (Secretariat of Governance)?
500
A Mexican economist and politician affiliated to the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) who served as President of Mexico from 1988 to 1994. He introduced economic and political reforms.
Who is Carlos de Salinas de Gortari?
500
Owned or controlled wholly or partly by the government.
What is Parastatl?
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