Voices of Mexico no. 45
Our Voice
Paradoxically, the great technological information revolution of the end of the millennium has also brought great uncertainty. Globalization brings with it both opportunities and enormous risks, and it is these risks that now perturb the euphoria we have felt since the fall of the Berlin Wall as well as the possibilities of economic development and redistribution of income. Adam Smith's invisible hand seems to be pressuring some countries and forgetting others. Hobbes' Leviathan tells us once again that it is unwilling to disappear from the scene.
The struggle between Adam Smith and Thomas Hobbes has still not concluded. The state cannot take charge of everything, but neither can the market function as the only supposedly fair mechanism for redistributing resources. Today, we continue to have need of the nation state to put a limit on speculative capital, which in its desperate striving for quick profits loses sight of the fact that the entire financial system may be affected, the economies of many countries unbalanced to the degree that the whole world economy could go into recession, to the detriment of everyone, including speculative capital itself.
Editorial
Our Voice
Paz Consuelo Márquez Padilla
Politics
On the Political Economy of 1968
Rolando Cordera Campos
1968 in Mexico's Political Transition
Luis Salazar
1968 and the Quest for Democracy
Enrique Sevilla
Indigenous Autonomy in Mexico
Ana Luisa Izquierdo
Manuel González Oropeza
Economy
Labor Policy in the Maquiladoras
Changes under NAFTA
Mónica Gambrill
Society
Dilemmas and Challenges for Modernizing
Higher Education in Mexico
Roberto Rodríguez Gómez
United States Affairs
A Rose by Any Other Name
A Modest Yet Radical Proposal about "America"
John D. Studstill
Politics Is Not an Entertainment Event
Scenarios in the Clinton Case
Juan Pablo Córdoba Elías
Ecology
A Howl Fading into Time
Edgar Anaya Rodríguez
Museums
The Nacional Folk Cultures Museum
Sol Rubín de la Borbolla
Canadian Issues
Mexican Imagination in Quebec
Dianne Pearce
Mexico - Canada
A Growing Relationship
Carlos Rico
Literature
The House Loses
Juan Villoro
In Memoriam
Salvador Zubirán Anchondo (1898-1998)
An Apostle of Mexican Public Health
José Angel Conchello (1923-1998)
A Fighter for Democracy
Elena Garro (1917-1998)
A Unique, Disquieting and Polemical Writer
Astrid Velasco Montante
Reviews
Miro, identidad y rito
Mexicanos y Chicanos en California
Claire Joysmith
El triángulo imposible
México, Rusia Soviética y Estados Unidos
en los años veinte
Santiago Pérez Benítez
The Splendor of Mexico
Michoacán
Discovering the Familiar
Marcela Segura Coquet
Cornstalk Paste and Maque
Two Symbols of Survival
Elsie Montiel Ziegler
Science, Art and Culture
Shaft Tombs Discovered in Bolaños, Jalisco
María Teresa Cabrero
Zalce, Deep Currents
Teresa del Conde
Dreams of Stone and Sand
Augusto Isla
Our Undocumented Lady of Guadalupe
Margarita Zires