It's in Mexico State, which is actually the largest state in Mexico. Mexico State has 16 million inhabitants, so it's a very important election. It's also a bellwether election. It's a state that the PRI has never lost.
To be frank, it plays horribly. Perhaps the great advantage we have right now—and by “we” I mean those people who are liberals, but liberal in a classic, British sense of the word, people who believe in economic liberty, people who believe in basic liberalism, in the rule of law and in democracy, those of us who have been fighting for that—is that we are now at a point where there is a consensus in Mexico that free trade, and particularly North American free trade, is a good to be defended. That is giving us more leeway than we would normally have.
I'm not quite sure how much longer it's going to last. As you know, these vacuums of power fill very quickly. If you start seeing these spaces where interest groups, particularly in agriculture but also in manufacturing, start smelling blood in the water, they are going to want to get their protection. We started seeing that with respect to a group of people from the countryside. They took to the streets here in Mexico in one of the protests, and they started asking to be included in the NAFTA renegotiation.
With this I'll close. Right now what we are looking at in terms of agriculture is that Mexico has realized that the white voters in Iowa are taken much more seriously than the brown voters in Texas or California. Given that reality, we have realized that it is very important to signal to the United States that those jobs would be in peril, that we would look for sourcing. We don't want to do it. We love the fact of being part of the North American supply chain. We love sourcing our products from North America. We believe very profoundly in the region as a whole and we want to protect it as a region. We want to make it more competitive, but these are things on which we cannot just idly stand by.