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As a regional power And the only Latin American member of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) since 1994, Mexico has a upper middle-income country." Mexico is the 12 th largest economy in the world Gross Domestic Product (GDP), on a par with countries such as Canada And Spain despite the income inequality remains high.

…The economy is closely tied to that of its North American Free Trade Agreement partners. The elections were held in July 2000, marked the first time an opposition party won the presidency of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (Partido Revolucionario Institucional, PRI), which has been held since 1929, culminating a process of political change that had begun actively at the local level during the 1980s. After win independence from Spain, it was decided that the new country would be the name of its capital city, whose original name was founding of Tenochtitlan Mexico -, referring to Mexica tribe, usually known as the Aztecs."

The origin of the name of the tribe is dark and subject to varying interpretations. Some argue that derives from the Nahuatl Mexitl or Mexitli, a name secret for the god of war and patron of the Aztecs, Huitzilopochtli, in which case Mexico means "Place where Mexitli lives." Another hypothesis is that the word Mexico stems from the metztli ( "Moon"), xictli ( "navel", "center" or "son"), AND the suffix - jointly (place), in which case, which means "Place in the center of the moon" or "Place in the heart of Lake of the Moon", in reference to the Lake Texcoco."