In this New York Times, opinion editorial column, author Friedman analyzes the strong connection between the U.S. and Mexico with what he calls "Narcos, No’s and Nafta." Mexico and the U.S. have a truly unique relationship that is becoming even more important. Friedman believes that the Drug Wars in Mexico are fueled by the market for drugs in America and the American bought guns that are smuggled into Mexico in order to arm cartels. U.S. travel advisories dissuading citizens to traveling to Mexico have been followed by Mexico's recent travel advisory dissuading Mexicans to travel to Arizona because of recent immigration policy. Friedman then discusses what he sees as the two middle classes in Mexico. Friedman's first group, which he describes as the middle class that "lives off the oil pumped and exported by the state oil company Pemex, which funds 40 percent of the government’s budget", stands as the primary opposition force to privatizing state-owned companies or opening industries to foreign investment or domestic opposition as they advocate the status-qu0. However the other middle class group, described as "the people who came from the countryside to work in new industries spawned by NAFTA", who seemed to have been instilled with an American Dream type of dogma. Friedman predicts that this new emerging bourgeois will eclipse the current middle class and demand new social and economic reforms that are currently hampered.