One of the major issues before the country right now is the North American Free Trade Agreement. You can debate what the effect will be, but nobody doubts that it'll be significant. Union organizers get killed. If the Ford Motor Company wants to toss out its work force and hire super cheap labor, they just do it. Nobody stops them.
Pollution goes on unregulated.
It's a great place for investors. But that's most unlikely. One reason is that the repression there prevents organizing for higher wages. These products are all produced with big public subsidies, and they'll undercut Mexican agriculture. We may lose hundreds of thousands of jobs, or lower the level of jobs.