In the 1990s,two signal events marked history in Mexico and Peru:the passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement(NAFTA) by Mexico and her neighbors to the north,the United States and Canada;and the unlikely election of a son of Japanese immigrants,Alberto Fujimori, to the presidency of a South American,Spanish-speaking nation,Peru.How do these events illuminate the themes of this panel,decolonization,modernization,and nation-building?……
