Posted on 06/10/2006 4:49:12 PM PDT by Bangupjob
SAN JOSE DEL RINCON, Mexico - Conservative presidential candidate Felipe Calderon said Friday that the United States and Canada should help build a Mexican economy strong enough to keep people from migrating north in search of work.
Calderon said he would like to see an international development plan similar to those used by the European Union to jump-start Ireland and Spain's economies, which now are booming.
"I think it's very valid to propose that Canada, the United States and Mexico all invest in productive projects and infrastructure in areas that send the most migrants out of the country," the ruling National Action Party candidate told The Associated Press aboard his campaign bus as it left a rally in this small farming community northwest of the capital.
"It's very obvious that building one kilometer of highway here is better than 10 kilometers of wall along the border," he said.
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Most investment in Mexico is off limits to American investors.
Ask not what your nacion can do for you...
Ask what the Gringos can do for your nacion.
How many factories sent down there is enough? It isn't like a lot of them haven't gone down there already.
$20 Billion/year isn't enough? Greedy, filthy bunch!
The problem is that the last time we invested in a Latin American nation, Hugo Chavez nationalized it.
build more Cancuns and Cabos less Tijuanas and Mexico Citys
If Pemtex would only drill like Bill Clinton......
American investment is there to be had. The problem is not America but Mexico. Get rid of the corruption and trade barriers and I'm sure there will be investment.
Mexico is exporting unemployment to the US and she needs to correct her problems before telling others what to do.
(Sorry. I'm in a bad mood tonight.)
I'm calling for Mexico to sell us oil for $20 a barrel.
Their oil & gas industry is booming. Thing is, American companies that work down there almost always get ripped off.
I'm in the GOM right now, working as a third-party contractor to a Mexican dive company. They still owe my company money.
Given the massive corruption, high crime rate, and historic lack of respect for property rights, Mexico doesn't strike serious investors as being a stable investment.
Annex Mexico and Americans will be free to invest to their heart's content.
I would like to know how many more billions Mexico wants. We bailed threir a$$ out in 1994 when the peso floated. We have been giving billions to them ever since. So much for NAFTA.
Roads aren't what they need, good old fashioned US-Marine-led nationbuilding with details like rule of law are what they need!
This guy is the leftist candidate. What he fails to mention is that after we have invested a bundle in Mexico, he will confiscate it.
Wrong - he's what passes for the rightwing guy. God help us if the leftist wins, it will be so much worse.
investment?? note to investors: Plan on going in with yer pants down around yer ankles and be ready to grab 'em at a moments notice......
Yeah. We could see this one coming
a mile off. Why else was Fox visiting
the U.S. states of CA, UT, and WA?
He wasn't looking for sunshine!
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