Economic Adviser to the President of Mexico
Labor unions and environmentalists in the United States are not the only ones
speaking out against NAFTA. There continues to be opposition in Mexico by those
complaining of a loss of national sovereignty and who feel that the income gap
between the two countries will never be narrowed.
Average hourly wages on the U.S. side of the border can be
six times that on the Mexican side. Mexican critics fear that their entire
country will be dominated by companies from the United States which do not
contribute to Mexico’s higher standard of living, but who instead use Mexico as
a low-cost assembly site while keeping high-paying high-skilled jobs at home.
Do you think that there is a way for trade agreements to
help close the economic gap between poor and wealthy partners? Should this be
one of the aims of trade agreements? As economic adviser, how do you suggest
the president protect Mexico’s workforce.
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