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Official Name of Mexico: United Mexican States
Government type in Mexico: federal republic
Capital of Mexico: Mexico
Primary Language in Mexico: Spanish
Currency in Mexico: Mexican peso

The site of advanced Amerindian civilizations, Mexico came under Spanish rule for three centuries before achieving independence early in the 19th century. A devaluation of the peso in late 1994 threw Mexico into economic turmoil, triggering the worst recession in over half a century. The nation continues to make an impressive recovery. Ongoing economic and social concerns include low real wages, underemployment for a large segment of the population, inequitable income distribution, and few advancement opportunities for the largely Amerindian population in the impoverished southern states. Elections held in July 2000 marked the first time since the 1910 Mexican Revolution that the opposition defeated the party in government, the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). Vicente FOX of the National Action Party (PAN) was sworn in on 1 December 2000 as the first chief executive elected in free and fair elections. Strategic location on southern border of US; corn (maize), one of the world's major grain crops, is thought to have originated in Mexico.

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» Atkinson
» Cancun
» Cozumel
» Guadalajara, Jalisco
» Huatulco, Oaxaca
» Ixtapa
» La Paz
» Los Cabos
» Manzanillo

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