Voices of Mexico no. 114
Our Voice
It was the Roaring Twenties, and in Europe and the United States, people were listening to jazz and dancing the Charleston and the fox trot. The extravagance, the euphoria, the laugh- ter, and the overflowing champagne glasses filled the cabaret nights in an escape toward the future, attempting to erase the memory of the chilling death toll left by World War I and the Spanish Flu. But very soon, they ran into the Great Depression of 1929.
Given the unprecedented nature of some experiences, like the covid-19 pandemic we’re go- ing through now, it’s inevitable to try to establish parallels with situations we’re familiar with, whether we experienced them ourselves or they’re part of our history. However, when we have to deal with what comes and have to try not to go through a greater crisis, it’s not very important to read the past if we don’t do it with the gaze of people who are aware of what we’ve lost, but that we’ve also won something. That gaze must be that of someone who has decided to not con- tinue with the injustice and inequality among countries and among people, someone who has un- masked the pandemic, someone who has benefitted from technology and uses it to fight people’s unequal access to it; the gaze of someone who, instead of continuing to increase polarization, builds bridges of conciliation.
Our Voice
Teresa Jiménez
Expectations
One Border, Two Borders, Three Borders . . .
Cecilia Estrada Villaseñor
Immigration Policy in Biden’s First 100 Days
Mónica Verea
The Two-track Relationship
Between Mexico and the United States
Raúl Benítez Manaut
The Return of the Hegemon
José Luis Valdés-Ugalde
Changes and Inertias: Environmental
Prospects in Times of the Anthropocene
Gabriela Anaya Reyna
Social Justice, the Pandemic,
And the Right to Employment
Marcela Azuela Gómez
Community Organization and Participation
The Future of U.S. and Mexican First Peoples
Liliana Cordero Marines
Great Expectations
The Paradoxes of Virtuality
In the Time of a Pandemic
Diego Ignacio Bugeda Bernal
Reflections on Education in Mexico, 2021
Claudia Bataller Sala
At School, but Alone with the Screen
Keeping This Virus in Mind
Interview with Dr. Guillermo Ruiz Palacios
Teresa Jiménez
The Uncertain Certainty of a Pandemic
Amado Nieto Caraveo
Art and Culture
Rojo. The Creator’s Geometric Rain
Fernando Gálvez de Aguinaga
The Playfulness Behind
Gabriela González Leal’s Art
The Future of Mexican Art Galleries
Luciana Sánchez Fernández
Captive Chilhood
Alejandro Paniagua Anguiano
Illustrated by Martín Pech
What’s to Become of Theater?
Claudio Valdés Kuri
Music and the Pandemic
Alejandro Giacomán