In this Issue of Voices of Mexico
Content
Our Voice
Territories of Violence
Violence in Mexico
Organized Or Authorized Crime?
Óscar Badillo Pérez
One of the most tragic episodes in recent Mexican history took place in August 2010, at least 150 kilometers from the U.S. border: fifty-eight men and fourteen women, mostly from Central and South America, were brutally murdered in the border municipality of San Fernando, Tamaulipas, by an organized crime group. This ominous event, known as the “Massacre of 72,” was only one of the multiple acts of organized violence perpe-Strated against the civilian population in the border region during the so-called “war against drug trafficking.”
Necromasculinity
Sayak Valencia
In feminist studies, it is well known that gender models change with time and context, and that the desire to become part of those models is not a 100-percent free choice, but depends, rather, on intersectional relationships of hierarchy and exclusion. However, today, when violence has become the fundamental driving force of the economies of death, it is a priority to think about masculinity and its relationship to violence and crime not as a primary or essentialist condition, but with the understanding that masculinity, as a project that governs populations, impregnates state structures.
Feminicide, A “Normal” Crime
Mariana Berlanga Gayón
The battle to transform language is one of the characteristics of our era. The different feminisms existing in Mexico and the world show that. In recent years, we women have begun to take the floor after centuries of silence, or, rather, after having been repeatedly silenced. However, when we take the floor, we also change language. So, it is appropriate to ask what the power of words is. To what extent can the revolution in language cause changes in women’s reality?
Violence, Risking Writin About it
Marilu Rasso
What is written in a country where, on average, every day, ten women are the victims of feminicide for being women?
Ten women silenced by death. Ten men who murder ten women, showing, once again, the risk it is to be a woman and not do what is expected of them in a country where the levels of impunity and social complicity allow and reproduce normalized and naturalized violence.
Portrayal of Rape of Women
In Hollywood Fiction Films
Verónica Cervantes Vázquez
In 2017, the word “rape” began occupying an uncharacteristically prominent place in U.S. media. Why? We can trace it to a renewed outpouring of rage at the silence imposed on victims of sexual violence, which gathered strength in the context of protests that preceded Donald Trump’s election as president of the United States that very year.
Dead Bodies on Streets
Will Straw
On the back page of the February 12, 2023 edition of the Mexico City tabloid La Prensa, under the headline “¡A Sangra Fria!” (In Cold Blood!), a photo shows the body of a corpse lying in the middle of a street. The headline reads “¡A Sangra Fría!” The caption adds that this is the body of a man “shot to death” in the Mexico City district of Tultitlán.
Art and Culture
From Personal Experiences
to Collaborative Art.
Interview with María Ezcurra
Teresa Jiménez
Born in Argentina, raised in Mexico, and now living in Canada —specifically in Tiohtià:ke [Montréal]— the places where María Ezcurra has lived have left their permanent artistic and experiential imprint, driving her work. The body, gender, memory, identity, belonging, violence, and immigration stand among the topics that concern her, cause her pain, and have led her to investigate and experiment with an array of forms of expression, formats, and materials, almost all of them second-hand and carrying specific meanings.
Raíces y Tránsito
Información para migrantes
Our Voice
Territories of Violence
Violence in Mexico
Organized Or Authorized Crime?
Óscar Badillo Pérez
Necromasculinity
Sayac Valencia
Feminicide, A “Normal” Crime
Mariana Berlanga Gayón
Violence, Risking Writin About it
Marilu Rasso
Portrayal of Rape of Women
In Hollywood Fiction Films
Verónica Cervantes Vázquez
Dead Bodies on Streets
Will Straw
How Is a Criminal Constructed
in the Public Eye?
Susana Vargas
The 2019 and 2023
Narco “Culiacanazos”
Dual Power
Guillermo Ibarra Escobar
Ana Luz Ruelas
Fentanyl, the New Boogeyman of
U.S. Anti-Drug Geopolitics and
Crime Fighting
Ariadna Estévez
White-Collar Crime,
Characteristics and Scope
Silvia Núñez García
Cybercrime, the New Global
Challenge and Its Impact in Mexico
Juan Manuel Aguilar Antonio
Vicente Leñero, Precursor
Of Non-fiction Netflix Series
Antonio Mejía Guzmán
Serial Killers in Mexico
Illustrations by Samara Sánchez and Esaú Callejas
Research and content by Alejandra de la Vega
Bird-Cage Girl
Filomena Cruz
Illustrations by Xanic Galván
Voices of Protest in the
Contemporary Mexican Corrido
Nallely Barba Altamirano
Art and Culture
From Personal Experiences
to Collaborative Art.
Interview with María Ezcurra
Teresa Jiménez
Technique Turns Hunger
Into Time
Poems by Lorena Aviña
Illustrations by Erika Albarrán
Elina Chauvet
An Emblematic Figure in the
Fight Against Gender Violence
Gina Bechelany
The Unidentified in the Country
of 100,000 Disappeared
Text: Violeta Santiago
Photos: Fred Ramos
Review
Industrias culturales
norteamericanas en la era digital
by Alejandro Mercado Celis
and Santiago Battezzati, eds.
Directory
Director
Graciela Martínez-Zalce Sánchez
zalce@unam.mx
Coordinator of Publications
Astrid Velasco Montante
astridvm@unam.mx
Editor-in-Chief
Teresa Jiménez Andreu
tejian@unam.mx
About Us
Voices of Mexico is published by the Centro de Investigaciones sobre América del Norte, CISAN (Center for Research on North América) of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México UNAM (National Autonomous University of Mexico).
The magazine brings our readers information about different issues of general interest in Mexico, particularly regarding culture and the arts, the environment, and socio-economic development. It features critical articles and literature by Mexican authors in English and is distributed in Mexico, the United States, and Canada.
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