Voices of Mexico no. 110

Our Voice

In August 2019, we began a series of activities to make the importance of the cisan’s production of knowledge in North American studies even more visible than it already was.

Originally created as the Center for Research on the United States of America in the year the Berlin Wall fell and the Cold War ended, it was an innovative step in the university. It recognized the fundamental importance for Mexico of having a deep understanding of U.S. society, economy, and ways of doing politics domestically and abroad. This was clearly even more important in the context of the signing of nafta, when the center established our country’s first Canadian studies area.

This special issue of Voices of Mexico is one of those commemorative activities. Since the magazine was created in the cisan to disseminate our country’s thinking and culture through —as its name implies— our voices, in many cases university voices, in order to eradicate simplistic stereotypes, we thought that it was vital that our voices from the cisan express our opinions about the development of the region over the last three decades.