United Mexican States

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Across
  1. 2. lower house (7-2-8)
  2. 3. established during the severe labor shortages of WWII, and allowed >4 million Mexicans to temporarily work in the US between 1942 and 1964 (7-7)
  3. 5. trade agreement between the US, Mexico, and Canada (5)
  4. 9. citizens forming paramilitary groups to protect themselves from cartel activity (9)
  5. 11. when two or more political parties (such as MORENA, PT, and PVEM) join together in an election in order to gain more power (9)
  6. 12. grants of land that were given to peasant communities (6)
  7. 15. party that ruled for 70 years until 2000 (3)
  8. 16. capital city (6-4)
  9. 17. the spectacular growth of the economy from about 1940-1980 (7-7)
  10. 18. law requiring female representation in the chamber of deputies (6-5)
  11. 19. current president (5-7)
  12. 20. in order to root this out, caused some mexican state police forces to be replaced with federal troops (10)
  13. 21. division of power (7)
  14. 23. ethnic Mayans (9)
  15. 24. reben army made up mostly of ethnic mayans (4)
Down
  1. 1. majority party in the lower house (6)
  2. 4. majority religion (11)
  3. 6. the article that rules that Mexican legislators cannot be re-elected to consecutive terms (7-2)
  4. 7. legislature (8-8)
  5. 8. factories that import materials or parts to make goods that are then exported, found near the US border(12)
  6. 10. group that adjudicates all election disputes (9-8)
  7. 13. upper house (6)
  8. 14. dictator overthrown by mexican revolution (7-4)
  9. 16. “blending of cultures” (9)
  10. 22. the state controlled oil monopoly in Mexico (5)