Voices of Mexico no. 60
Our Voice
Nothing is possible without men,
but nothing lasts without institutions.
JEAN MONNET, 1888-1979
Recently, intense discussions have been taking place in academia —and to a lesser extent also in political circles—in Mexico, Canada and the United States about the North American community. Before centering on how to design concrete political proposals, the debate has first involved, among other issues, the need to define what is understood by “community” and why an initiative of this magnitude should be supported. This is important if we ask ourselves how the integration of a community could be conceived of among three countries that have encountered certain difficulties in defining their bilateral, trilateral and multilateral agendas and priorities. As we have already said in other editorials, Mexico and Canada have put forward some guidelines for beginning the discussion. However, Washington has been unclear about, if not reluctant to accept the feasibility of a community.
Editorial
Our Voice
José Luis Valdés-Ugalde
Politics
Mexico’s New Diplomacy Interview with Minister of Foreign Affairs
Jorge G.Castañeda
Political Parties in Mexico Since the Changing of the Guard
César Cansino
Society
Growth and Poverty Two Persistent Faces of Mexico
Jesús Francisco Estévez García
Mexican Businesses A World of Inequality
Isabel Rueda Peiro
History
Tracing U.S. Predominance In Mexico’s Foreign Trade (1870-1948)
Sandra Kuntz Ficker
Economy
Mexico, Modern Diplomacy And the European Union
Alejandro Chanona
Ten Years of NAFTA A Mexican Perspective
Antonio Ortiz Mena
United States Affairs
The Hispanic Market In the Western United States
Erika González
Esther González
Canadian Issues
Oil, the State and NAFTA Is Canadian Oil Up for Grabs?
Aaron Roth
Museums
Science and Art at the Xalapa Anthropology Museum
Rubén B. Morante López
Science and Technology
Strategies for Developing A Cervical Cancer Vaccine
Ricardo Rosales
Literature
Writers of Tierra Adentro Publishers Two Mexican Women Novelists of the 1990s
Graciela Martínez Zalce
And If I Were Susana San Juan…
(Fragment)
Susana Pagano
A Way of Dying (Fragment)
Vizania Amezcua
In Memoriam
Mariana Yampolsky’s Profound Mexico
Elsie Montiel
Reviews
La pintura mural prehispánica en México
Área maya
Leticia Staines Cicero
Territorio de leonas. Cartografía de narradoras mexicanas en los noventa
Edith Negrín
The Splendor of Mexico
La Huaxteca in Time and Space
Lorenzo Ochoa
El Tajín
First Approximations of a Civilization
Arturo Pascual Soto
History and Ecology of Vanilla
Mariana Hernández Apolinar