# Let's make Mexico great again!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-mexico-great-again/778277>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [January 27, 2017, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-mexico-great-again/778277 "2017-01-27T00:13:32Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2017, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-mexico-great-again/778277/21 "2017-01-28T18:49:59Z")

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**rat avatar** , I am going to use your post as an outline to help me improve how I lecture on this material (I teach human geography to undergrads). Thanks!

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**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2017, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-mexico-great-again/778277/22 "2017-01-29T08:07:04Z")

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> [@Musicat](#):
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> I’m not suggesting throwing money down south with abandon. Perhaps some kind of plan could be devised to make sure funds provided were used appropriately and not just to line some fat cat druglord’s pockets.

You mean like building factories and making trade agreements that help cross border commerce?

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**Author:** ![Pearl\_Clutching\_Provocateur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Pearl\_Clutching\_Provocateur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pearl_Clutching_Provocateur)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2017, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-mexico-great-again/778277/23 "2017-01-29T15:14:59Z")

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> [@JKellyMap](#):
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> **rat avatar** , I am going to use your post as an outline to help me improve how I lecture on this material (I teach human geography to undergrads). Thanks!

Since you teach human geography, can you explain why Mexican diaspora in the United States seem so indifferent to the problems in Mexico? One would think given the proximity that they would be a huge influence to bring about the structural change needed so that Mexico was on par with the USA. I live in Southern California and I see no such effort. One might assume that they would see how things work work relatively well here and might want bring these ideas such as rule or law and transparency to their former homeland. I especially call out Mexican diaspora unlike people say from Yemen because many of them go and back and forth regularly and still have strong ties there.

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