International Journal of
Peace and Development Studies

  • Abbreviation: Int. J. Peace and Dev. Stud
  • Language: English
  • ISSN: 2141-6621
  • DOI: 10.5897/IJPDS
  • Start Year: 2010
  • Published Articles: 104

Review

Past and present status of the Mexican state

  Carlos E. Massé Narváez    
Social Sciences Departament, Facultad de Derecho/UAEMéx, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. 
Email: [email protected]

  •  Accepted: 19 January 2011
  •  Published: 31 March 2011

Abstract

 

Actually, a desolating panorama is lived: State empowerment by the transnational power, lost sovereignty, violence and rise of the offer of criminality, extreme poverty and increasing inequality, absence of transparent and efficient markets and increasing of the informal economy, it is precisely in Latin American where there have been efforts to slow it down, out of the financial worldwide scheme, although with its limitations and obvious cautions; because this is a very unequal and extremely complex fight. Based on the underlying hypothesis outlined here, I believe that a gray fate comes to the total settlement of the Mexican National State so as to social rights enshrined in the Constitution of 17 and quasi-preserved the quasi-welfare state that came to be. No, there can be no recipe for dealing with any successful enterprise of this nature. The neoliberal historiography has tried to prove that the industrial revolution has not conduced, not even in its start-up period, to the working classes' deterioration of material conditions of existence. In these sense, the gap between the post-industrialized world and the underdeveloped one, as well as between the minority groups of well-off people and the big dispossessed masses from the underdeveloped countries becomes more and more expanded. This is reflected by the increase of poverty. Alongside big masses' exclusion of people of the benefit of the productive activity and of the benefit of a salary, than even when in general it was, and the little that now it is unworthy, would allow them surviving.

 

Key words: State, welfare, democracy, economy, citizenship.