How Is Mexican President Calderon Doing So Far?

“After two weeks in office, how is Felipe Calderon doing as President of Mexico?

Calderon’s predecessor, Vicente Fox, deserves high marks for keeping the economy stable, with no peso crash or runaway inflation. Yet you might say the economy was a little too stable, in that it lacked the dynamic growth that could provide enough jobs for the million Mexicans who enter the work force annually. The new president needs to preserve Fox’s good financial policies while enabling the expansion of more and better-paid jobs.”

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