More than 60 percent of Mexicans are mestizos, a term used to describe the ethnic blend of people descended from Native Americans, the indigenous people of the region, and the Spaniards who conquered Mexico in the 1500s...
Mexico was the site of some of the earliest civilizations in the western hemisphere...
Mexico has a free market economy with a mixture of modern and outmoded industry and agriculture, increasingly dominated by the private sector...
Mexico is a net energy exporter...
Environment
Although Mexico is home to a remarkable wealth of bio-diversity, this environmental richness is threatened by air and water pollution, as well as the effects of deforestation, desertification, and its concomitant repercussive effects....
