Should Mexico strengthen the NAFTA, make a stronger emphasis on the FTAA or advance in both fronts?
Mexico will go through what Spain is experiencing now as it has come to realize it is amid a very positive situation for it belongs to a club of grown-ups and begins to detach from its youth friends, including us in Latin America. This happened to Spain, which as the motherland was a nation close to Latin America and suddenly realized it was more convenient to look to the north. Mexicans will go through the same and in some way it is already happening: they are no longer part of the Latin American economic cycle but of the American one, which proves more profitable. Mexico has always pursued a long-term foreign policy. It has an interesting Foreign Relations Minister -Jorge Castañeda- and has had interesting ministers in the past too so that I think it will be an important bridge. But when the time comes to make a decision, I guess they will set their sight to the north. What will happen with the Puebla-Panama Plan within this perspective? I have the impression they will maintain it fo
