World Savvy Monitor

President Calderon has experienced some initial success at instituting reforms and confronting drug violence, but the effects of the global economic recession will counter some of the positive sentiment which these successes have generated.  Mexico is expected to suffer a severe economic contraction as a result of the slowdown in the US economy, although meetings with President Obama in Mexico in January and at the Organization of American States meeting in April produced promises of closer US economic cooperation, as well as more effective border security.

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