A greener, or browner, Mexico?(effect of North American Free-Trade Agreement on Mexico's environment)(Brief Article)

From: The Economist (US) | Date: August 7, 1999 | Copyright information

CIUDAD JUAREZ

NAFTA purports to be the world's first environmentally friendly trade treaty, but its critics claim it has made Mexico dirtier. There is evidence on both sides

GIVEN the industrial invasion that the North American Free-Trade Agreement has brought to the cities that line Mexico's border with the United States, one might expect the skies of Ciudad Juarez to be brown with pollution, and its watercourses solid with toxic sludge. But no. The centre o...

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