This reference book presents the important issues of contemporary Mexico within the backdrop of its historical background and augments it with an informative analysis and comprehensive bibliography, Mexico, with over 100,000,000 people finds itself with a new and activist president Vincente Fox, the first non-PRI president, along with a good relationship with President George W Bush, formerly the governor of nearby Texas. Mexico is an active participant in NAFTA, a founding member of the WTO, and involved and substantive reforms both in the political as well as economic areas and an oil-exporting country to boot.