Resumo

VIDAURRAZAGA OBEZO, Francisco René  e  CORTEZ LARA, Alfonso Andrés. El Tratado de Libre Comercio y la ganadería bovina de carne de la región fronteriza de Coahuila. Estud. front [online]. 2000, vol.1, n.1, pp.189-221. ISSN 2395-9134.

This study has the objective to analize the bovine livestock in the North region of Coahuila, the importance on this sector of agriculture and livestock, as well as their effects from NAFTA in the field livestock, with perspectives in a short, medium and long term. The bovine livestock of the North region of Coahuila is encountering a serie of problems that does not permit to be competitive on a short and medium term, with the operation of NAFTA. According to the principal problems we can mention the bovine industry faces a high debt ratio with financial institutions, and reducing their solvency to meet its capacity on a short term, placing it in desadvantage with United States.