Why is Mexico Different?

How can we forget about the struggles countries like Syria, Libya, and Egypt are going through? It has all been part of the famous Arab Spring. This was anticipated, Arabs looking for democratization. For some reason, the world has focused on these countries, NATO and the UN itself have done everything they could to support the rebellion. With the excuse of a free world, western powers have bombed, invaded, and supplied weapons to Middle East.
This has been going on for 3 years. Yes, rebels want freedom, but is that really the reason we support them?
Our neighbor from the South, Mexico, has been through the same thing for years now, but nobody really seems to care. Although it is denied, Mexico has become a militarized state. There are checkpoints and unconstitutional searches, there are soldiers cruising around cities, with their weapons in plain sight, and there has been an increase on Mexican produced weapons. Everyday, the media in that country glorifies their armed forces, and brainwashing broadcasts happen all day.The same family has been in power for almost 20 years, and the people's vote was just a disposable paper. It all  got to a point where thousands of students from all over the country started to disagree. They started to go out to the main streets of the main cities to make a statement. Then, teachers, and other government employees started to go out to protest as well, against new laws and budget cuts. So did the indigenous peoples of that country, because the government was taking over their lands. Yesterday, just a couple of days before "El Grito de Independencia"- a ceremony that is the equivalent to July 4th to Americans- those who were protesting were violently displaced by the Mexican Federal Police. Though news articles, both American and Mexican, state that it was a nonviolent act, there are pictures and videos all over the internet that prove mainstream media to be wrong. With the Mexican Peso losing value everyday, budget cuts, teachers and students protesting, and people starving to death, Mexico is a time bomb.
Why is it, then, that the protests in the Muslim world are supported by Western Powers, while the protest in Mexico are ignored? There are millions of reasons: NAFTA has given the United States and Canada power over most Mexican industrial activities. Now, with their energetic reform, PEMEX will be a private company, which means that the Mexican state will not own it anymore, and that foreign people can buy their oil production. Those in power in Mexico, unlike those who were in power in Middle East, do not want to be a part of OPEC, which is pretty much America's number one enemy.
The thing is that Mexico's political struggle does not matter when it produces so much for us Americans. Unlike struggling Arab nations, Mexican leaders are not against NATO, actually, they support the economic interests of Western Powers. That is all the difference. Both middle east and Mexico have people starving and wanting a democracy; both have militarized states, and both have people protesting everywhere. It is all economics.