Friday, January 3, 2025
Mexico is the future Business Engine of North America
These are not Breaking News. Many of us consider Mexico to have the potential to become a new hub of the Mexican American culture, with industrial development to benefit North, Central America, and the Caribbean Nations with nearby agricultural and industrial centers to support millions of people with jobs available to people who otherwise would go elsewhere looking for opportunities.
Mexico is also one of the most stable regions in the World, with no natural external enemies and excellent weather almost year-round. Mexico is a great place to work, vacation, or retire. The labor force in place is young and willing to work hard, on-the-job training and formal education can easily be provided, and the proximity to major consumer markets will benefit all businesses, producers, and consumers.
Conditions will improve, better-paying jobs will be created South of the borders with the United States of America, and migration issues will recede. The illegal migration of working will reverse itself since Mexico and Central American citizens will start to find employment in the new agro-industrial region where their language is spoken. Opportunities for higher-paying jobs will be attractive to folks living on the northern side of the wall. Many will jump fences to seek employment in Mexico.
On January 10, 2023, the presidents of Mexico, the United States, and the Canadian Minister came together to revive the North American Coalition. They signed the Declaration of North America (DNA) to promote regional business development. North America is a significant global market for goods and services, albeit with relatively high transportation costs and energy usage. The idea is to establish an industrial, educational, and agricultural complex in Mexico, ideal for supplying North and Central America, Europe, Africa, and South America via the Atlantic Ocean without going through straits and canals. American workers willingly will jump over the border walls to work in the new companies.
How do we do this?
Three countries collaborating to establish social and economic stability, providing equal opportunities to all citizens within a democratic union, represents the ideal outcome of the necessary efforts and sacrifices for such a venture. The merger will transform local cultures. Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean share over three thousand years of history and cultural markers, but they were subjugated by the European migrating people who came to the new land. This is history and we learn to live with it, and the wrongdoing was never fixed, and is now time to accept this historical fact and fix the wrong by better understanding the diversified cultures of the land. This must be done through public education in both - or all three - idioms.
There are only two major languages, or maybe three counting the French spoken in Canada. However, for all practical purposes and arguments, American English and Spanish spoken in Mexico and Central America are the major idioms in the region.
All three idioms should be taught in K-12 classrooms to all students. By the time they graduate from 12th grade, every student should be able to read, write, and speak these languages. This approach will enhance learning proficiency, promote cross-cultural exchanges, and contribute to peace and prosperity in the region.
Funding a large, multi-nation project of this scale is challenging but possible, especially when it aims to promote economic growth, provide practical job training, and offer formal education to millions of people. Such initiatives promise to improve living standards for everyone and foster peace among nations.
If the United States and Canada do not fulfill their obligations under the agreement, China, South Korea, and Japan will proceed to set up manufacturing plants in Mexico to serve the same consumer markets. This could result in substantial job losses and missed opportunities for people in the United States, Canada, and Mexico.
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