SUMMARY AND POINTS: This is a good source because it talks about how the growth of Protestantism has grown

over the past few years. The latest date I saw in here was 1970. Other topics are the types of Protestantism. Protestantism in Mexico has been objectively documented by the Mexican census, but all social scientist and the Mexican census had shown an increase of about 10 percent. Census consist of everyone in household over the age of 5 and the head of the household can say what their beliefs are. When the 2000 census became available it showed a steady exponential growth between 1970 to 1990 and 1990 to 2000. It slowed in the south and picked up in the north but the south still had the largest percentages of Protestants. Once a religious group establishes itself, the faith also can move from generation to generation. All established groups in Mexico retain the goal of spreading the faith by conversion. The two types of protestantisms are Historical Evangelical Protestisms (Nazarenes) and the Evangelical Protestisms. Pentecostal is also propular but is not spreading as fastly as Protestism. The difference between the two is more modern and the historical Evangelical Protestisms is the style of proselytization or preaching The 2000 census divided the Protestantism into two major groups the protestants and evangelicals (5.20%) or Bible Oriented but not Evangelical (2.07%) Protestantism is spreading because psychological explanations that attribute the change to the way Protestantism resolves personal and family problems, historical explanations that see Protestantism as a process of confrontation with various powers, and materialist explanations that see it as resulting from changes in the material or economic situation. Protestantism is spreading through the lower classes and very poor rather than the rich and wealthy. Protestantism is converting more people from traditional fold Catholicism with nonCatholic origins than it is from a modern post-Vatican-II Catholicism. The Cargo systems. Cargo is a Spanish word meaning official duty, charge, or obligation. The obligation, for cargo systems, is to perform rituals celebrating the relationship between the community and the super natural beings represented by images of Catholic saints. Cargo systems are found mostly in the Indian areas of Mexico and Guatemala. Cargo systems are jointly economic, political, and religious. Cargo systems redistribute wealth, create political power and foster beliefs in the power of deities. Protestantism has grown the most rapidly among the Indian people because of the drastic economic changes that have been undergoing. URL LINK: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4150963?seq=2&Search=yes&searchText=Mexico&searchText=Hist ory&searchText=food&list=hide&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3FQuery%3DMex ico%2BHistory%2BAND%2Bfood%26Search%3DSearch%26gw%3Djtx%26prq%3DMexico%

2BHistory%26hp%3D25%26acc%3Don%26aori%3Da%26wc%3Don%26fc%3Doff&prevSearc h=&item=1&ttl=46252&returnArticleService=showFullText&resultsServiceName=null Dow, J. (2005) The Expansion of Protestantism in Mexico: An Anthropological View. Anthropological Quartely. Vol. 78, No. 4, pp 827-851 Reliable: This source is reliable because I got it off JSTOR and it ends with .org. It is 24 pages. SUMMARY AND POINTS: Mexicos war on drugs. Its not Mexicos consumption is high it is the trafficking Mexico officials has been fighting drug trafficking for over a century now. In 1912 Mexico government prohibited trade of main illegal drugs: opium, cocaine, and marijuana. A pattern developed over the first few decades and Mexico has become the main provide for the U.S. for heroin and marijuana. The drug cartel assassinated Enrique Camaerna in 1985. He was a part of the Drug Enforcement Administration. This was just showing how big of an issue it was. In the 1980s Mexico become the source of 70 percent of the marijuana and 25 percent of the heroin imported by the US as well as the territory through which 60 percent of the cocaine entering the US was transported. Four major cartels had developed in the 1990s but the DEA arrest the leaders of the Gulf Cartel and the Sonora Cartel. These cartels with no leaders where taken up by the Tijuana and the Juarez Cartels. Reliable figures cannot be giving but Mexican government says a feasible number is about 3 billion dollars per year. Comsumption in Mexico increased 30 percent from 1993 to 1998. URL Link: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1049739?&Search=yes&searchText=drugs&searchText=mexico&lis t=hide&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3FQuery%3Ddrugs%2Bin%2Bmexico%26S earch%3DSearch%26gw%3Djtx%26prq%3DMexico%2BJob%2BMarket%26hp%3D25%26acc %3Doff%26aori%3Doff%26wc%3Don%26fc%3Doff&prevSearch=&item=24&ttl=28472&retu rnArticleService=showFullText SOURCE and Reliable: Chabat, J. (Jul., 2002) Mexico's War on Drugs: No Margin for Maneuver. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science , Vol. 582, Cross-National Drug Policy pp. 134-148 I got this off JSTOR. SUMMARY AND POINTS: This source talks about the Middle-Class Mexican and the jobless situation. I liked it because it talks about the reason some people reached the middle class is by second and third jobs and using a lot of money management. It also state that the need to look into the immigration situation. The reason these people are coming to gether is they make a better living off less.

What is disconcerting is that this debate continues to revolve around whether undocumented immigrants represent a powerful workforce and millions of potential voters or a flood of trespassers and law breakers who threaten national security and American jobs and culture. When Vicente Fox took over in 2000 he promised a more available jobs and a raise in wages but instead 1.3 million people where unemployed and no wage raise has taken affect. Fox blamed this on the terrorist attack in the United States. The Mexican middle class include small business owners and self-employed professionals. Rene represented the prowing proportion of middle-class Mexicans who have been forced to take second jobs as a result of substantial wage cuts because of the threat of downsizing and layoffs. Middle class people are more worried about losing ones job. At the end of 2005, Mexicos population was 44 million of whom 97 percent were employed. 49 percent of those who were employed worked mainly in micro-businesses or small labor work. Even though jobs have been created and the overall wealth has created the quality of life is still poor and no one has really benefited. In 2006 professionals (newspaper reports to social works and nurse) made between $6-$15 US dollars a day. 50 percent of young people ages 15-24, including the educated, are leaving Mexico in search of better opportunities.

URL LINK: http://www.jstor.org/stable/27648077?&Search=yes&searchText=Culture&searchText=Mexico &list=hide&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicResults%3Fhp%3D25%26la%3D%26wc%3Don %26fc%3Doff%26acc%3Don%26vf%3Dall%26bk%3Doff%26pm%3Doff%26jo%3Doff%26ar %3Doff%26re%3Doff%26ms%3Doff%26gw%3Djtx%26Query%3DMexico%2BCulture%26sb q%3DMexico%2BCulture%26prq%3DMexican%2BCulture%26si%3D26&prevSearch=&item= 45&ttl=102811&returnArticleService=showFullText lvarez, C. (Jan., 2008). Immigration from the inside out: Understanding Mexico's Job(less) Situation through the Views of Middle-Class Mexicans. Latin American Perspectives , Vol. 35, No. 1, Engendering Mexican Migration: Articulating Gender, Regions, Circuits pp. 120-134 This source is reliable because I got it off JSTOR and it is 14 pages. POINTS: Those native to Mexico pride themselves in using natural, from the earth, local ingredients that generations before them grew up using. Mexican food cuisine dates back almost 9000 years. Mayans included a variety of different types of squash and sweet potatoes, local animals and insects, and any types of fruits or vegetables that were wild and could be harvested. Corn was the main staple of the pre-Colombian Mexican people. It could be boiled and mashed and formed into tortillas or tamales, or used to produce flour for other foods such

as breads. Almost all Mexican food dishes include some form of tortilla or tamale product, much like many American foods would contain a hoagie roll or sandwich bread. Usually, these tortillas would be filled with ingredients such as meat, rice, beans, or vegetables, or any combination of those. Mexican people relied mainly on a non-meat diet. Mexican people used a mix cropped method where they grew squash, corn, chilies, and beans together giving them a lot of variety. Mexican food culture was greatly influenced by trade with India and Spain. Rice, spices, beef, and different kinds of fruit were introduced. The bled of old Mexican cuisine with new Indian spices and Spanish ingredients create the tradition food culture in Mexico we see today. Tex-Mex foods are Americanized foods starting around Texas and Mexico. Refried beans are Tex-Mex as well as nachos, chimichangas, fajitas, and chili con carne. Food is considered the most important part of their culture.

URL LINK and Reliable: http://www.personal.psu.edu/srh122/Mexican.htm This source is reliable because it ends with .edu and was research done by Penn State University. I would assume it is 1-2 pages but I am not for sure.