Óscar CRUZ BARNEY ^**

The need to adhere to a competitive plan in the struggle to attract direct foreign investment and, at the same time, to preserve the direction of the strategic areas of the economy, we-re the two salient elements of the negotiating strategy of the Mexican Govern- ment in the investment chapter in the TLCAN. The practice developed during ten years of experience, has manifested salient connections between the environment and the resolution of controversies in the subject of foreign investment, which makes it necessary to now review what cases have been posed and the decisions made on the subject.

* Agradezco el apoyo recibido de don Fernando Marcin para la elaboración del presente texto. Una primera versión de este documento fue presentada en la Reunión del NACLE (North American Consortium on Legal Education) celebrada en la Ciudad de Washington, D.C., los días 10 y 11 de mayo de 2003.