Tuesday, March 25, 2014

The rest of the week and LDCs/NICs/Mexico Study Guide

To prepare for the end of the week (test on Mexico 3/28/14), you will need to use the Youdia.....But no "Mexting" as the Onion News Network satirically hightlighted in the first post on the Global South.

Wed. 3/26 - Surf through BBC Country Profile: Mexico and complete your 10-question quiz by Thursday. Also, at home watch the third video posted here, Maquila: A Tale of Two Mexicos. The first video, Mexico's Drug War, we will watch in class film guide due Friday.

Thur. 3/27 - View Mexico 2012 power point off Wolak's Google Docs page:

Mexico 2012 -- note the terms to know and what has changed. One obvious one.


 
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The above video (2010) highlights the federal state, and judicial review in Mexico, upholding same-sex marriage in Mexico City. As in the US, in Mexico, the upper level courts are primarily appellette courts. The Supreme Court (11 justices) can declare laws and governmental actions unconstitutional by a vote of eight or more of the judges. The high court also upheld a state law (only seven rulled against) in the state of Baja California that says life begins at connception.

Mexico Upholds State Right to Life Law

Wednesday's multiple choice test will cover Ch.11 and 16 in Hauss, packet readings and power point notes (which can be accessed on the Google Docs page)

Terms to KnowPresidente Fox/President Bush on boarder policy

LDC/NICs compare and contrast
WTO/NAFTA effects on Mexico
Mexican independence
Constitution of 1917 – similarities differences with U.S. Constitution
Presidents and Generals of Mexico till mid-20th Century
Mexican legislature – format and characteristics
Political Parties – PAN, PRI, PRD place on political spectrum
Sexenio presidency
Federal Election Commission
Political Efficacy in Mexico
Technicos
Politicos
Mestizos
Maquiladoras
Patron-client relations (camarillas)
Corruption
Para-statal sector
compressed modernityPEMEX
Mexico’s policy of structural adjustment under Fox/Calderon
Economy/Immigration as a political issue
Narco War as a political issue
Mexican trade with U.S./U.S. Trade with Mexico
Mexican civil service
Charicteristics of Mexican civil society, political culutre and beauracracy
Mexico by comparative economic sectors
Camarillas
Politcal cleavages in Mexico
Judicial Review in Mexico?
Narco War and the legitimacy of the State
Mexicans living in the U.S. and the effects on both countries
Presidente Calderon on private investment of state oil/electricity
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