Voices of Mexico no. 58
Our Voice
I. At the close of this issue, we are witnessing what seems to be the end of another stage in the anti-terrorist offensive implemented by the United States, Great Britain and their Western allies. In that stage, Kabul was captured and the precarious power structures of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan dismantled. The search for Osama bin Laden and his most important associates in Al Qaeda continues; and the top Taliban leadership is also undoubtedly a target of the Americans. Nevertheless, their capture does not seem a simple matter in the short term.
Certainly, the destruction of the last redoubt of Taliban resistance means the break-up of what is left of that alliance, today repudiated throughout the world, even in the Arab countries. It also makes for a serious problem of global security and, seen from Washington, represents a threat to the security of the West. That is why we are already seeing and will continue to see an even more diligent adjustment in the United States’ international security agenda. During this adjustment, all of Washington’s friends and allies will be affected. The global order will more clearly than ever be transformed from its very foundations, in its organization and the definition of its priorities. Undoubtedly, this will have an important impact on the domestic agendas of countries like Mexico. In fact, the U.S. internal security agenda has already felt the impact. The series of “patriotic policies” advanced by President Bush appeals to the majority of Americans to fall into line with and obey the new emergency measures implemented by the Department of Justice. Reactions have not been slow in coming and in different parts of the United States, local authorities have refused to detain and interrogate suspicious foreigners simply because they are foreigners.
Editorial
Our Voice
José Luis Valdés-Ugalde
Politics
Mexico in the UN Security Council
Raúl Benítez Manaut
Unionism. The Actor Missing From
The Stage of Change in Mexico
Fernando Francisco Herrera Lima
Mexico’s Political Parties in 2001
Between Dispersion and Recomposition
Ricardo Espinoza Toledo
Mexico - U.S. Relations
September 11
A Watershed in the U.S. Migratory Debate
Mónica Verea Campos
The Prospects for an Immigration Agreement
Miguel Ángel Valverde Loya
United States Affairs
A Proposal for U.S.-EU
Immigration Policy Harmonization
Simone Lucatello
Economy
September 11 Sparks a Long-Awaited Recession
Elaine Levine
The U.S. Recession and the Global Crisis
Arturo Guillén
Some Economic Repercussions
Of September 11
Pablo Ruiz Nápoles
The Geopolitics of Oil and Gas after September 11
The Case of Mexico
Rosío Vargas
Canadian Issues
Nationalism and Identities in Quebec and Canada
Claude Couture
Museums
The Querétaro Art Museum
Yolanda Cano and Guadalupe Zárate
Literature
The Man Falling from the Tower
Eduardo Vázquez Martín
In Memoriam
Remembering Andrés Serra Rojas
A Moral Duty
Armando Alfonzo Jiménez
Reviews
Dreaming with His Eyes Open
A Life of Diego Rivera
Silvia Núñez García
La revolución espiritual de Madero
Documentos inéditos y poco conocidos
Juan Antonio Rosado
The Splendor of Mexico
Andämaxëi: The Three Foundations of Querétaro
In the Sixteenth Century
David Charles Wright
The San Fernando College’s Sierra Gorda Missions
Jaime Abundis
Two Archaeological Sites
In Querétaro’s Sierra Gorda
Margarita Velasco Mireles
Science, Art and Culture
The Painting of Gabriel Macotela
Luis Rius Caso
Gabriel Macotela in Brief
Elsie Montiel
Science for the Poor. The Mixteca Region’s
“Water Forever” Program
Víctor M. Toledo and Leonor Solís