Chapter 14
Video Resources
- In this video, 1991 Miss Universe contestant Lupita Jones (who went on to win the contest) discusses the promise and challenge that free trade represented for Mexico: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8lkIhEqwPM (1:03)
- This 2007 promotional video discusses the advantages of establishing maquiladoras in Ciudad Juárez: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRuY3dww6Gk (06:14)
- This 2010 video, from Tufts University, discusses how NAFTA has affected Mexican agriculture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4KRd7Qjyys (8:22)
- This 2012 video discusses the environmental challenges in Mexico City: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJCuireArSc (5:25)
- This 2011 video discusses the relationship between Mexican immigrants and the U.S. economy from the Bracero Program up to NAFTA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yt1T9ZDgbtI (26:39)
Links
- This website contains human rights reports from Amnesty International from 1994 to 2014: http://www.refworld.org/category,COI,AMNESTY,COUNTRYREP,MEX,,,0.html#SRTop41
- This website discusses the history of Wal-Mart in Mexico in the contest of NAFTA and the debt crisis: http://harvardpress.typepad.com/hup_publicity/2012/04/wal-mart-in-mexico-bethany-moreton.html
- This website offers history and analysis of maquiladoras and the border economy: https://www.mtholyoke.edu/~shah20m/classweb/index.html
- This obituary of Julio Scherer García discusses the life and work of the pioneering Mexican journalist: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/julio-scherer-garcia-fearless-and-influential-journalist-who-helped-expose-many-of-mexicos-biggest-scandals-in-decades-9971163.html
- This website provides discussion and statistics related to conservation and destruction of rainforests in Mexico: http://rainforests.mongabay.com/20mexico.htm
- This website discusses the history of telenovelas, Mexican soap operas: https://logatfer.wordpress.com/2013/09/04/mexican-soap-operas-telenovelas-mexicanas/
- This website details the history of the Metro subway system in Mexico City: http://www.urbanrail.net/am/mexi/mex-history2.htm
- This website contains the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act: http://www.eeoc.gov/eeoc/history/35th/thelaw/irca.html
- This website from Pew Research discusses trends in Mexican immigration to the United States: http://www.pewhispanic.org/2012/04/23/net-migration-from-mexico-falls-to-zero-and-perhaps-less/