Social Issues In Mexico

With nearly 50million people living organically in Mexico, the language is over 90 percent Spanish and the religion predominantly of the country is Catholicism. The fasting growing faith in the country is The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (LDS). It started in 1875 with the second president of the church, Brigham Young. The president sent six missionaries to begin preaching the gospel. By 1912, there was roughly 4000 members in the country. By 1983 a Mormon temple was erected to serve the faithful followers in Mexico City and the surrounding areas. As of 2016, over 1 million members and 13 Mormon temples are evident that the LDS faith thrives and will continue to expand in the country. Besides the religious movement in the country, …show more content…
The inclination and the drive to start work early will have a negative viewpoint on further education and other social and political issues. Mexico is a modernized country; it has developed cities, universities and a form government. It is the slightly smaller than three times the size of Texas. This makes Mexico the sixth largest country covering both North and South …show more content…
It is not the worst country in the world but the countries improvement is very slim and their economic status will not improve any time soon. With such a gap in economic inequality roughly 31% of the youth population will be poor by the age of 15-24. Mexico is part of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Like previously mentioned income is largely uneven among the masses. Statistically Mexico’s income is one third of the United States. With close relationships with the United States, Mexico is a big contributor to the US’s exports and imported goods. Mexico 's current president Enrique Pena Nieto, emphasized changes in many programs from education, energy use, economic reform. The presidents goal is to improve the growth of the Mexican peso and push the Mexican economy forward. With Mexico laying claim to many oil reserves in the Gulf of Mexico, it is opening the rights to develop and explore the gulf region. This allows the government to continue to receive funding from outside investors. With low oil prices, weak showing in production, weak law and corruption, this will ultimately hinder any further growth in this market. This hurts the country inevitably because is dependent of the revenue that is brought in from state owned oil companies. This makes the economy vulnerable to outside pressures from other oil producing