The document discusses the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and provides background information on several past and present leaders of Mexico and Canada. It notes that NAFTA was signed in 1992 by the leaders of the US, Canada, and Mexico and needed to be ratified by each country. It also discusses issues related to the drug war between Mexico and the US, mentioning that President Felipe Calderon of Mexico deployed troops to fight drug cartels when he took office in 2006.

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3. Following diplomatic negotiations dating back to 1986 among the three nations, the leaders met in San Antonio, Texas on December 17,1992 . George H.W. Bush, Canadian Prime

5. He was a local representative in the Legislative Assembly and, on two different occasions, in the federal Chamber of Deputies.

7. Ernesto Zedillo Mexican economist and politician. He served as President of Mexico from December 1, 1994 to November 30, 2000, as the last of the uninterrupted seventy year line of Mexican presidents from the Institutional Revolutionary Party. Since the ending of his term as president in 2000, Zedillo has been a leading voice on globalization, especially its impact on relations between developed and developing nations.

11. As time progressed, Calderón continued to escalate his anti-drug campaign, in which there are now about 45,000 troops involved in addition to state and federal police forces.

12. In 2010 Calderón said that the cartels seek "to replace the government" and "are trying to impose a monopoly by force of arms, and are even trying to impose their own laws