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Comparative Analysis Between Governments of U.S. and Mexico

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oppression and poverty are much more prevalent there. Interestingly, Mexico is much smaller than the United States. In fact, it is "slightly less than three times the size of  Texas" ("Mexico," 2003, p.PG). Also, the roots for each of the countries are decidedly different as Mexico has Spanish roots whereas America was born largely from British rule.  Mexico lived under Spanish rule for three centuries prior to achieving independence early during the nineteenth century ("Mexico," 2003). By contrast, the United States has been independent from England, its  mother country, since the middle of the eighteenth century. While the U.S. economy has not fared well in the past few years, it had been robust through the 1990s. Yet,  a devaluation of the peso in late 1994 put Mexico into economic turmoil and it experienced one of the worst recessions in over half a century (2003). Interestingly, elections  in Mexico were held in July of 2000 and this was the first time since the 1910 Mexican Revolution that the opposition defeated the party in government, or the Institutional  Revolutionary Party (PRI) (2003). Vicente Fox of the National Action Party had been sworn in as the first chief executive elected in free and fair elections (2003). Although Mexicos history  is almost as old as that of the United States, the U.S. government boasts free and fair elections since its inception. Mexico is a federal republic  ("Mexico," 2003). It has 31 states and one federal district (2003). The U.S. has many more states but has a federal district as well called Washington, D.C. Like America  celebrates the Fourth of July due to its roots in 1776 independence, Mexico also celebrates its independence. Its holiday is on September 16th and it gained independence from Spain in