MEXICO, a global player comes of age LATEST REPORT December 21st, 2000	Mexico A dynamic member of globalization Mexico, a dynamic member of globalization Top report, July 3rd, 2000 Produced by World INvestment NEws ltd. Senior Associate Director: Corinne Semaille Associate Director: Richard Alcon Associate Producer: Jochen Schell At World Investment News Ltd , we like to hear the opinion of our readers. If you have any comments on our reports or articles, we will post it in our website. Please send us your views in order to improve them and to better inform the web community. Let us know! Mexico , one of the most beautiful countries I have ever visited. I had the opportunity, twice, to drive through for almost three months. The first time, driving Combi Van (those surfers trucks), we went from Tijuana to Acapulco and then to Mexico City . The second time, we drove from Laredo, across the Texas border, all the way to Mexico City and then on to Veracruz, where Hernan Cortez arrived in the 16th century. From there we drove down the Atlantic coast to a city called Chetumal, in the Belize border, where the Mayas organized many of their religious events. At that time, I did not, I forgot, to visit one of the most beautiful places I have ever seen : Los Cabos in Baja California . " Impressive, breathtaking, spectacular sunshine between the Pacific and the Cortez Sea. Here you will find one of the most spectacular natural shows, where the biggest animal on earth, the whale, give birth! A friend of mine gave me that advised when I went there: Shhhhtttt listen to the view (waves)! But Mexico has gone much more further than attracting tourist for the last 10 years. It has gone through a tremendous economic restructure where almost all main sectors have been privatized. The recent free trade agreement signed with the European Union and Mexico, plus the NAFTA agreement , has made Mexico now the only country together with Israel to have such trade agreements that will boost foreign trade and investments. Mexico is among one of the few countries that has been able to compete with the Asian Tiger countries in order to attract foreign investment in the technology sectors because of their well educated workforce. So if you decide to come to Mexico for any of the above mentioned reasons, you will never regret it unless... Pascal Belda Publisher   Read on   © World INvestment NEws, 2000. This is the electronic edition of the special country report on Mexico published in Forbes Global. July 3rd 2000 Issue. Developed by AgenciaE.Tv