How would you compare Mexico’s political stability with the stability of other Latin American countries? What is it that has helped Mexico be as stable as it has through its modern history?
How does Mexico’s presidency illustrate both the strengths and the weaknesses of presidential systems of government as described earlier in the text? Is Mexico a “typical” presidential system? Does the Mexican president have any unusual presidential powers?
What do you view as the key economic challenges facing Mexico today? What economic crises has it managed to survive and work through in recent years? How has it made the progress that it has made? What does its future seem to hold?