So Europeans and Asians see U.S. companies pumping more and more dollars into their economies, not only to buy their exports in excess of providing them with goods and services in return, and not only to buy their companies and commanding heights of
privatized public enterprises without giving them reciprocal rights to buy important U.S. companies (remember the U.S. turn - down of Chinas attempt to buy into the U.S. oil distribution business), and not only to buy foreign stocks, bonds and real estate.
After the city's economic collapse in the 1980s,
public enterprises were increasingly
privatized, allowing the disparity between socioeconomic classes to grow increasingly visible, making Mexico City an example of the pitfalls of late - capitalism.