Voices of Mexico no. 104
Our Voice
A year after Donald Trump’s surprising electoral win sparked many fears, it is time to reflect on the effects his presidency has had in many areas, both domestic and international. They have almost all been negative, not only for certain sectors of U.S. Americans, but also for the inhabitants of other regions and all of humanity.
Our analysis has to be nuanced, however: while many of his most polemical and concerning campaign promises have remained mere electoral propaganda, others have been blocked at least temporarily. This has been brought about by the opposition of political democratic institutions of his own country, such as Congress or the courts, by the international system’s multilateral bodies, and even by other leaders and heads of state, who have begun to exercise leadership on global issues that the United States has retreated from. This is the case of the Paris Accords on climate change; the United States is today the only nation that has announced its withdrawal from those accords, when even the last two dissident countries, Syria and Nicaragua, recently signed them. Special mention should be made of the resistance to his policies on his own soil, mainly from organized civil society and local city and state governments, led by governors and mayors.
Editorial
Our Voice
Diego Ignacio Bugeda Bernal
Politics
Trump versus Fromm:
Breaking Bad
José Luis Valdés-Ugalde
Mexamerica at War with Donald Trump
A Case Study in California
David R. Maciel
Rethinking Nationalisms
Trump and Alt-Right “White Nationalism”
Ruth A. Dávila Figueroa
Economy
A Renegotiation “Made in America”
NAFTA’s Uncertain Future
Elisa Dávalos
Myths about the U.S. Trade Deficit
María Cristina Rosas
Scenarios and Sovereign Alternatives
On NAFTA’s Winding Road
Enrique Pino Hidalgo
United States Affairs
Medical Migration to the U.S.
The Case for a Brain Gain Theory
Camelia Tigau
Suspending DACA in the Trump Era
Paola Suárez Ávila
Society
The Edificios Condesa
And Mexico City’s Artistic Hub
Alejandro Mercado-Celis
The Splendor of Mexico
Mexico City Markets
Stores for All Five Senses
Teresa Jiménez
Literature
Muros, Walls, Butterflies, and Poetry
An Interview with Poet and Writer Gina Valdés
Claire Joysmith
Reviews
Canadá y México durante la era Harper:
reconsiderando la confianza
Graciela Martínez-Zalce, Silvia Núñez García,
And Oliver Santín Peña, eds.
Mary Carmen Peloche Barrera
Narcocultura de Norte a Sur.
Una mirada cultural al fenómeno del narco,
Ainhoa Vásquez Mejías, ed.
Ana Georgina Aldaba Guzmán
Art and Culture
MEXICO CITY. THE CITY OF PALACES,
MAJESTIC BUILDINGS, AND EXTRAORDINARY SPACES
Public Space in Mexico City
William Brinkman-Clark
Alejandro Hernández Gálvez
The City and Remembrance
Mariana Abreu Olvera
In Search of New Forms
The Architecture of the Mexican Revolution
Diana Paulina Pérez Palacios
Special Section
YOUNG INDIGENOUS MIGRANTS
INTERGENERATIONAL AND INTER-COMMUNITY DISPUTES
Colonial Remnants and
“Indigenous” Specificity
In Migration
Susana Vargas Evaristo
Community, Migration,
And Youth Cultures in the
Northern Mountains of Oaxaca
Alejandra Aquino Moreschi and
Isis Violeta Contreras Pastrana
Young Mixtecs
The Vicissitudes of Life in Tijuana
Olga Lorenia Urbalejo
Dilemmas Facing
Oaxacan-Indigenous-Origin
Youth in the United States
María Eugenia Hernández Morales
Waking from the “American Dream”
Young Migrant Returnees
In Las Margaritas, Chiapas
Iván Francisco Porraz Gómez
Young Male and Female
Indigenous University Cybernauts
Between Cara a Cara and Face to Face
Jorge Alberto Meneses Cárdenas