Ethan Rihn

Mr. Sebestyen

World Regional Geography

3/29/17

Democracy for the People

Mexico is a place of opportunity and potential in the world of today. Today there are

different options to express these different potentials for Mexico. This option focuses on helping

the poor Mexican citizens become stabilized to end poverty and reshape the Mexican

government to a more balanced democracy. This is meant to support the people of Mexico rather

than its economic interests. This is also meant to focus on the internal problems of Mexico rather

make Mexico look presentable to the rest of the world such as how Greece did. Instead of the

hiding the issues of Mexico we need to embrace them and solve them before we can start

Mexican innovation which is the goal.

The first priority for Mexicos future needs to be helping their own people with their

finances, living standards, and providing them safety. The people of Mexico need well-paying

jobs instead of getting low wages for hard labor. The reason they need these well-paying jobs

because as of right now 45% of Mexicos population lives in poverty. If Mexico is able to

provide the people with well-paying jobs then they can start fulfilling their basic needs of shelter,

food, and water. This will make the poor in Mexico rise out of poverty and start helping the

economy again. Another action we need to take is helping the people to improve housing

situations in Mexico. The reason we need to help them is because the poor are living unsanitary

and rundown areas and some areas, even more, people are homeless. In Mexico City, an
estimated 50% of people live in informal, low-income settlements.-(HomelessWorldCup) If we

start creating programs to help our citizens with housing then it will be one less worry for them

and something for them to support the government for. Lastly, the people need to be safe from

crime and drug cartels in Mexico. If we give the people jobs and houses but leave them

unprotected with a police force that is untrusted then what reason would they have to trust the

government? We need to start training officers and detectives with some outside help to take

down cartels and drugs in major areas of Mexico such as Mexico City, where a study by the

Monterrey Institute of Technology said, 98.5 percent of the crimes committed in Mexico go

unpunished. That means a person can hurt our citizens and not be convicted thus leaving our

population scared and that is the reason we need to upgrade our police force. If we don't finance

the poor, give them proper living quarters, or keep them safe then our government will have no

credibility to them so it must be our most important goal as a government.

The next subject the Mexican government needs to act on is itself and how it operates to

prevent dictatorship, revolutions, and maintain stability. The people won't trust a corrupt

government especially one controlled by a dictator with no boundaries how Mexico has faced in

the past such as Santa Anna in 1833 and repeatedly until 1855, Porfirio Daz in 1879 to 1910,

and Agustn de Iturbide after the Mexican war for independence. During those dictatorships, the

rich benefitted from the suffering of the poor. There were few attempts stop this corruption such

as the La Reform and the Constitution of 1917. To prevent these dictatorships from rising up we

want to divide and restrict the power of the president and model our government off of the U.S.

democratic government due to their success in stable transfers of leadership. This may be

unsupported by some and could potentially start a revolution but we have a plan for that. The

plan for the Mexican government to stop revolutions is to copy the work of the PRI, Institutional
Revolutionary Party. The PRI used to unite political movements of the revolution and turn their

loyalties to the PRI. Mexico should do the same and convince the people against them and

change their views to join the government by saying this is for them. This does sound corrupt but

if it's unsuccessful then we'll let their opinion stay but use some anti-insurgent methods. Lastly,

as Mexico focuses on their government an important issue they need to look at is to keep the

government economically stable. Mexicos history has shown that after independence its

economy has had many ups and downs but has been taken advantage of in Mexican trade. It also

shows Mexico has depended on unreliable sources to boost its economy such as in 1982 oil

prices dropped which at the time was Mexico main source of economic income. To prevent this

from happening Mexico needs to spread out but also limit its investments in local businesses and

foreign trade so if something drops in price it won't hurt the governments ability to operate. So,

for the government to be able to operate to the local the people they need to keep democracy,

unite the interests of the people to support the government, and maintain a stable economy to

support the government.

This is should be Mexicos option for the future of Mexico to support the people and

improve the government. This approach to Mexico is to strengthen the people and government as

whole rather than improve or advance it due to certain flaws such as poverty. The people who

would support this approach would be the poor of Mexico for the benefits. They would support it

because it focuses on helping them with their struggles and allowing them to feel safe and stable.

Also, it would be supported for its improvements for the government to make it stable and more

of a democracy than its past political systems. All of that is true, but there are some aspects that

would obviously be disagreed on from other viewpoints. Such as how the world today strives for

innovation and if Mexico started to do this then they may be left in the dust from the rest of the
world because this involves some isolation. That may be true because Mexico wont be working

on innovation it will be working on helping the poor and improving the country to be safe but to

do that it does require some innovation such as upgrading hospitals and safety standards but it

wont be ground-breaking or revolutionary. Sacrificing possible attempts to be more caught with

the modern world so we can instead help our own people become stable is worth the risks.

Another thing that could be against this plan is that not focusing on trade could hurt Mexicos

economy and businesses. Yes, during this plan for Mexico, it doesnt involve any major trade

deals or using NAFTA and it does require a big sum of money but it wont hurt Mexico any

more than it already is hurt. Mexico is currently four-hundred and sixty-four billion dollars in

debt which for its population of one-hundred and twelve million people is about $4,136 in debt

per citizen in Mexico. The plan is to try to change that and improve the wealth of the poor and

increase the number of middle-class citizens which means if theyre making more money, then

we get more tax currency and the debt decreases and Mexicos debt will decrease. So, this plan

should be in everyones interest on Mexico because the end result is it will benefit them all.

Mexico has faced corruption in its past but it all faced stability and democracy with equal

rights too. This option is meant to take those past ideals of the Revolution and give the people

rights and help the poor. This meant to reshape the government and allow it to last and support

the people of Mexico as a strong democracy. Some may disagree with the approach because it

limits interest in economic growth but in the long run that will rise and thrive in Mexico. The

people are the most important subject in Mexico especially the poor and suffering at which our

history has left to live in poverty without aid. This option will change that and give aid to the

poor and reshape our political structure to prevent repeating our past mistakes as a country.
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