Problems In Mexico Research Paper

Mexico’s Modern Problems In the early years of Mexico there were many problems. They had to become an independent nation, which took many brave lives and quite some time. Then Mexico had a dispute over land with the United States that resulted in a war. After that they had a financial problem that put an even larger gap between the rich and the poor. Mexico had to overcome all of this, then many years later they were a mostly civilized country. That leads into the next set of problems that occurred after World War II which was a war that was hoped by many to end all wars. Though after the war, Mexico has some great economic and industrial growth, even as the poor get poorer and the rich get richer, there are still problems both socially and economically. Some bigger problems are the Oil Crisis, the overall …show more content…
Even with this increase the gap between the rich and the poor continues to widen. Since the government will not do anything to help the poor the poor hardly ever break away from their poor economic status. In 1994 the Zapatista National Liberation Army, often referred to as the Zapatistas, was created to help the poor fight. The primary goal, other than fighting for all of the poor, was to redistribute the land. The day after NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement, was signed the Zapatistas took action and quickly took over four Chiapas towns. Rafael Guillén Vicente urged everyone to join the movement to go around capturing towns. The Zapatistas would fight for many days and would fend off the Mexican troops. In the first few battles they had around 100 people were killed. With the uprising now coming up even faster the Mexican government had a big problem on their hands. The president at the time, Carlos Salinas de Gortari, held peace talks to try to persuade the rebels to stop, but this did not stop. Secretly, while this was all happening the Mexican government was fighting the