Mexico and the new geopolitical paradigm

We are witnessing a reconfiguration of the world economic architecture not seen since the end of World War II, with the emergence of new nations, new economic and political governance bodies, and the U.S. dollar taking the place of the pound sterling as the universal currency. It is a change of historical epoch.

Even the fall of the Berlin Wall, accompanied by the debacle of real socialism for not having fulfilled the high expectations it offered its citizens for decades, was enough to be a global economic schism such as the one we are witnessing, driven in a forceful and aggressive manner by President Donald Trump and the 25 trillion dollars a year that the US economy is worth.

Military and cultural blocs

In the coming years we will be witnessing the formation of three major commercial, financial, military and cultural blocs. Europe, Russia-China and the United States will be vying not only for control of trade, but also for control of the cultural, moral and social patterns for the next 100 years.

Unfortunately for Latin America and Africa, they can no longer be expected to try to connect with any of these centers of power and development. What is coming is not a minor matter and its triggering is of reserved prognosis.

Unfortunately, Mexico is not united in this paradigm, but in the contradiction of having a second leftist government that, on the one hand, is forced by circumstances to defend free trade and its commercial partnership with the U.S. and Canada both free market economies, and, on the other hand, internally promoting economic policies that prioritize the State over the investment capabilities of the private sector.

Economy open to the outside and closed to the inside

It is possible to have an economy open to the outside and closed to the inside. This dilemma is presented to us in what is the ninth change in the economic development model that governments have tried to impose on us in the last 100 years.

Based on the levels of poverty, marginalization, corruption and insecurity, we can affirm that they have all failed partially because we did not allow them to be fully implemented as soon as another government arrived to impose another idea.

Defending the benefits of the T-MEC by the Mexican government in Washington, the origin of the free market impulse, has no effect if we do not understand that what the great powers seek more than intertwining their production chains, is military, cultural and even territorial control, where neutrality or double disguise hardly fit.

The geographic situation and the needs of the country make it necessary to make the best decision, to take advantage of 30 years of international trade experience and to bring the benefits that will result from this new geopolitical architecture to the southern states of the country, which until now have been erased from North America.