Abstract

PEREZ LLANAS, Cuauhtémoc V.  and  CAMARA, Mamadou. The assembling industry for export and its move: The case of Yucatan. Inv. Econ [online]. 2002, vol.62, n.241, pp.119-152. ISSN 0185-1667.

Latin American economies have generally benefited from investments of foreign capital to support and sustain their industrialization processes. The majority of the analyses on direct investment in the area have given preference to strategies of penetration in the countries' internal market, and only rarely has the specificity of the location of an industry that is mainly dedicated to export, been pointed out. This idea of the nations of Latin America as "workshop countries" can be proven to exist by means of the analysis of Mexico's Assembling Industry for Export, that has been part of the economic activity from 1965 onwards. Its importance has been such that it generates 40 percent of the employment of the manufacturing industry and it constitutes an important source of foreign currencies, in so far that it has overcome the revenues from petroleum and tourism.

The main objective of this article is to present the development of the assembling industry for export in the state of Yucatan during the 1990s in order to illustrate the thesis that the industry has moved from the borders to the interior of the country. The growth over the 1990s in this federal entity shows that it benefited from the assembling industry's shift away from the Northern frontier to areas with better conditions.

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