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Since then, austerity has curbed Mexican buying of European luxuries, and higher tariffs have helped stem the influx of cheap Asian textiles and footwear that threatened its low-end industries.
The LAT says the austerity moves are "likely to produce a punishing recession," but suggests this cure isn't as bad as the disease of a currency devaluation, which it says, the government is determined to avoid.
The country is basically being run by global corporations that, aside from their direct economic influence on who gets elected and what they do when they get elected (a large aside), control economic policy by essentially saying to politicians on all levels, federal, state, and local, give us fiscal austerity, low taxes, and less regulation or we a) will take our jobs elsewhere and b) won't lend you money.
Liberals' spin: Camdessus was too strict in forcing economic austerity.
Severe austerity.