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| 7874892927 | Mestizo | A person of mixed white, indigenous (Amerindian), and sometimes African descent. | 0 | |
| 7874892928 | Amerindian | Original peoples of North and South America; indigenous people. | 1 | |
| 7874892930 | Maquiladoras | Factories that produce goods for export, often located along the US-Mexican border. | 2 | |
| 7874892932 | Anticlericalism | Opposition to the power of churches or clergy in politics. In some countries, for example, France and Mexico, this opposition has focused on the role of the Catholic Church in politics. | 3 | |
| 7874892933 | Ejidos | Land granted by Mexican government to an organized group of peasants. | 4 | |
| 7874892935 | Sexenio | The six-year administration of Mexican presidents. | 5 | |
| 7874892937 | North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) | A treaty among the US, Mexico, and Canada implemented on January 1, 1994, that largely eliminates trade barriers among the three nations and establishes procedures to resolve trade disputes. NAFTA serves as a model for an eventual Free Trade Area of the Americas zone that could include most Western Hemisphere nations. | 6 | |
| 7874892938 | Corporatist State | A state in which interest groups become an institutionalized part of the structure. | 7 | |
| 7874892941 | Import Substituting Industrialization (ISI) | Strategy for industrialization based on domestic manufacture of previously imported goods to satisfy domestic market demands. | 8 | |
| 7874892944 | Technicos | Career-minded bureaucrats who administer public policy according to a technical rather than political rationale. In Mexico and Brazil, these are known as the tecnicos. | 9 | |
| 7874892945 | Para-Statal | State-owned, or at least state-controlled, corporations, created to undertake a broad range of activities, from control and marketing of agricultural production to provision of banking services, operation of airlines, and other transportation facilities and public utilities. | 10 | |
| 7874892948 | Felipe Calderon | Mexico's president. Elected in 2006 - 2012 | 11 | |
| 7874892949 | Camarillas/Clientelism | Vast informal networks of personal royalty that operates as powerful political cliques. (patron-client system) | 12 | |
| 7874892950 | Chamber of Deputies | The lower house of Mexico's legislature. | 13 | |
| 7874892952 | Lazaro Cardenas | President of Mexico from 1935-1940. Responsible for redistribution of land, primarily to create edijos, or communal farms. Began program of primary and rural education. | 14 | |
| 7874892953 | Caudillos | National military strongmen. Dominated Mexican politics in the 19th and early 20th centuries. | 15 | |
| 7874892954 | Chiapas Rebellion | Southern Mexican state which had large groups of Native Americans, where rebels took up arms and challenged the government, demanding land reform. | 16 | |
| 7874892955 | Neo-Corporatism | A structure in which business, labor, and state engage in bargaining over economic policies. | 17 | |
| 7874892957 | Dependency Theory | A model of economic and social development that explains global inequality in terms of the historical exploration of poor nations by rich ones. | 18 | |
| 7874892958 | Porfirio Diaz | A Mexican dictator who ruled from 1876 to 1910. Disposed by the Mexican Revolution. | 19 | |
| 7874892960 | EZLN | Zapatista Army of National Liberation. A largely Mayan group that staged an uprising in 1994. Demanded political reform and greater rights for Mexico's indigenous people. | 20 | |
| 7874892963 | Vicente Fox | Mexico's president from 2000 - 2006. The first non-PRI president in over seven decades. | 21 | |
| 7874892964 | GATT | General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. International trade organization that encourages free trade by lowering tariffs and other trade restrictions. | 22 | |
| 7874892965 | GNP per capita | Gross National Product. The sum of all goods and services produced in a nation in a year. | 23 | |
| 7874892966 | HDI | Indicator of level of development for each country. Constructed by the United Nations, combining income, literacy, education, and life expectancy. | 24 | |
| 7874892967 | Federal Election Institute (IFE) | Organizing elections of the president and the Congress of the Union. Registering voters and parties. Giving all parties access to the media. Setting the ceiling for campaign expenditures. Allocating public funds fr campaigns. Recruiting and training citizens to run polling places. Confirming the electoral results. | 25 | |
| 7874892969 | Benito Juarez | Mexican national hero. President from 1961-1867. Brought liberal reforms to Mexico, including separation of church and state, land distribution to the poor, and an educational system for all of Mexico. | 26 | |
| 7874892971 | Neoliberalism | A political orientation origination in the 1960s. A strategy for economic development that calls for free markets, balanced budgets, privatization, free trade, and minimal government intervention in the economy. | 27 | |
| 7874892972 | Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador | AMLO. El Peje. Mexican politician who held the position of Head of Government of the Federal District from 2000 to 2005. In the 2006 election, he represented the Coalition for the Good of All. | 28 | |
| 7874892974 | Patron-Client System (Camarillas) | Powerful government officials deliver state servicing policies and access to power in exchange for the delivery of political support. | 29 | |
| 7874892975 | PEMEX | Mexico's powerful state-owned oil monopoly. | 30 | |
| 7874892979 | Politicos | Expertise lies in the party, law, and political science. Old style politicians in Mexico. Tell you what you want to hear. PRI. | 31 | |
| 7874892980 | Porfiriato | Period of rule by Porfirio Diaz. Rich getting richer. Poor getting poorer. Influences of the Porfiriato are: stability, authoritarianism, foreign investment and economic growth, and growing gap between the rich and the poor. | 32 | |
| 7874892981 | PAN | National Action Party. A conservative Catholic Mexican political party that until 2000 was the main opposition to the PRI. | 33 | |
| 7874892982 | PPP | Purchasing Power Parity. Evens exchange rates between currencies. Compares goods to other countries' goods. | 34 | |
| 7874892983 | PRD | Party of the Democratic Revolution. Mexico's main left-of-center opposition party. | 35 | |
| 7874892984 | PRI | Political party intended to stabilize political power in the hands of its leaders. Served as an important source of government legitimacy until other political parties successfully challenged its monopoly during the late 20th century. | 36 | |
| 7874892986 | Pancho Villa | A Northern Mexican peasant leader of the Revolution who, together with Emiliano Zapata, advocated a more radical socio-economic agenda. | 37 | |
| 7874892987 | WTO | The World Trade Organization. An international body that enforces agreements that reduce barriers to international trade. Successor to the GATT. | 38 | |
| 7874892988 | Zapatistas (EZLN) | Guerilla movement named in honor of Emiliano Zapata; originated in 1994 in Mexico's Southern state of Chiapas. Government responded with a combination of repression and negotiation. | 39 | |
| 7874994518 | Emiliano Zapata | leading figure in the Mexican Revolution, the main leader of the peasant revolution in the state of Morelos, and the inspiration of the agrarian movement called Zapatismo. | 40 | |
| 7875021280 | Enrique Pena Nieto | sometimes referred to by his initials EPN, he is the 57th and current President of Mexico 2012 - present. | 41 | |
| 7939260546 | NICs | a term used to describe a grop of countries that achieved rapid economic development beginning in the 1960s, largely stimulated by robust international trade and guided by government policies | 42 |
