But Mexican economists are not so sure.

Miguel Mancera Aguayo (born December 18, 1932) is a Mexican economist.

Everardo Elizondo Almaguer is a Mexican economist who has worked for private, public, and academic institutions.

Carlos Heredia is a Mexican economist born in Tampico, Tamaulipas in 1956.

All three come from a generation of Mexican economists who earned graduate degrees at universities in the United States and are now running Mexico.

By 1943, experienced Mexican economists realized that the enthusiastic U.S.Mexican wartime economic cooperation of the last three years was becoming less and less justified.

"It really should be called a confusion-grade rating," said Roberto Salinas Leon, a Mexican economist.

"There are two faces to this crisis," said Luis Pazos, a Mexican economist who is often critical of the Government.

Mexican and foreign economists agree that the last three months have been an excellent time to trade pesos for dollars.

According to a CIDE study, he is the most frequently quoted Mexican economist in international professional journals.