Chapter 14

Video Resources

  1. In this video, 1991 Miss Universe contestant Lupita Jones (who went on to win the contest) discusses the promise and challenge that free trade represented for Mexico: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8lkIhEqwPM (1:03)
  2. This 2007 promotional video discusses the advantages of establishing maquiladoras in Ciudad Juárez: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRuY3dww6Gk (06:14)
  3. This 2010 video, from Tufts University, discusses how NAFTA has affected Mexican agriculture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4KRd7Qjyys (8:22)
  4. This 2012 video discusses the environmental challenges in Mexico City: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJCuireArSc (5:25)
  5. This 2011 video discusses the relationship between Mexican immigrants and the U.S. economy from the Bracero Program up to NAFTA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yt1T9ZDgbtI (26:39)

Links

  1. This website contains human rights reports from Amnesty International from 1994 to 2014: http://www.refworld.org/category,COI,AMNESTY,COUNTRYREP,MEX,,,0.html#SRTop41
  2. This website discusses the history of Wal-Mart in Mexico in the contest of NAFTA and the debt crisis: http://harvardpress.typepad.com/hup_publicity/2012/04/wal-mart-in-mexico-bethany-moreton.html
  3. This website offers history and analysis of maquiladoras and the border economy: https://www.mtholyoke.edu/~shah20m/classweb/index.html
  4. This obituary of Julio Scherer García discusses the life and work of the pioneering Mexican journalist: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/julio-scherer-garcia-fearless-and-influential-journalist-who-helped-expose-many-of-mexicos-biggest-scandals-in-decades-9971163.html
  5. This website provides discussion and statistics related to conservation and destruction of rainforests in Mexico: http://rainforests.mongabay.com/20mexico.htm
  6. This website discusses the history of telenovelas, Mexican soap operas: https://logatfer.wordpress.com/2013/09/04/mexican-soap-operas-telenovelas-mexicanas/
  7. This website details the history of the Metro subway system in Mexico City: http://www.urbanrail.net/am/mexi/mex-history2.htm
  8. This website contains the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act: http://www.eeoc.gov/eeoc/history/35th/thelaw/irca.html
  9. This website from Pew Research discusses trends in Mexican immigration to the United States: http://www.pewhispanic.org/2012/04/23/net-migration-from-mexico-falls-to-zero-and-perhaps-less/

Primary Documents from the Text

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