Credit Jason Szenes/European Pressphoto Agency
President Enrique Peña
Nieto of Mexico is expected to promote a series of steps to modernize
and remake the Mexican economy and raise the standard of living when he
addresses the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday morning.
He has won approval to
let foreign companies and investors hold a stake in Mexico’s national
oil company, raising the prospect to vastly increase slackening
production. He has rewritten the telecommunications law with a goal to
break up the near monopoly of a few private telephone and television
companies. And he has undertaken changes in the education system to
lessen the grip unions hold in schools, and to improve education in
Mexico, where students are far behind those in countries of similar size
and levels of development. But Mr. Peña Nieto remains more popular
abroad than at home, as polls show sinking approval numbers and growing
impatience with the much-promoted reforms that have yet to meaningfully
raise wages or the standard of living of ordinary Mexicans.
All worthy goals in my mind.
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