Voices of Mexico no. 28
Our Voice
One of the world's most widespread problems today concerns the economy. In Mexico, the Gross Domestic Product for last year was low, while the GDP for this year will be lower than expected and less than the rate of population growth.
In addition, wealth has been concentrated in the hands of a few, while the majority of the poor have experienced a considerable drop in living standards. Forty per cent of the population lives in poverty, of whom 14 million live in extreme poverty. This poses an enormous challenge to the government and Mexican society as a whole.
The Banco de México, a highly prestigious institution, publishes an annual report on the Mexican economy. In this issue we present a summary of the 1993 report, including the government's main achievements as well as negative aspects still to be solved.
Editorials
Our Voice
Hugo B. Margáin
Economic Issues
The Mexican economy in 1993
Marybel Toro Gayol
Comments on the Banco de
México's Annual Report (1993)
Miguel A. Ortega
Interviews
Remedios Varo, a magical journey
Dinorah Isaak
Feliciano Béjar, the poetry of all things
Gabriela Rábago Palafox
Museums
The San Carlos Museum
Elisa García Barragán
Mexican-Canadian Relations
From Mulroney to Chrétien: more of the same?
Thomas Legler
Canada's view of Mexico
Linda Hossie
Chiapas
The "madness" of Marcos
Fernando Chamizo Guerrero
Beyond the truce
Elsie L. Montiel
The Maya world in movement
Fulvio Eccardi and César Carrillo T.
The rainforest farmers
James D. Nations
From Latin America
The U.S. and Cuba: changes ahead?
Santiago Pérez Benítez
Politics
Historic debate in Mexico
Marybel Toro Gayol
The Splendor of Mexico
The central Post Office
Maricarmen Velasco
Intelligent buildings in México
Fernando Del Rivero
Science, Art and Culture
Octavio Paz: eight decades of poetry,
politics and history
Mónica Ching
Margaret Atwood and Octavio Paz:
convergence and divergence
Graciela Martínez-Zalce
The historical novel in Mexico
Eugenio Aguirre
Mexico in the art of Jean Charlot
Yohualli de la Villa
Orozco in San Ildefonso: the eruption
of modemity on the walls of the past
Miguel Angel Bahena P.