Voices of Mexico no. 76
Our Voice
Since July 2, Mexico has been immersed in the worst post-electoral crisis in the history of its young democracy, which has been severely challenged by some of the very political actors who participated in the elections. Since the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) came into effect in 1994, Mexico has concentrated on carrying out a series of far-reaching reforms that have led the country through a profound transformation of its macro-economic variables. While this dynamic imposed enormous challenges on micro-economic aspects of sustainable development, such as the distribution of the positive results of growth and other fundamental factors that would lead to horizontally sharing the benefits of integration, these either were not achieved or were not pursued with appropriate strategies. After the 1988 political crisis caused by another severely questioned presidential election, the opening of the Mexican economy had been perceived by a broad spectrum of national and international analysts as the preamble for achieving the country’s political-institutional modernization. At the same time, it would create the structural basis for a solid economy, well prepared to withstand the transformation of the economic variables aimed at achieving a beneficial exchange for a country with enormous deficiencies, as well as the polarizing realities of North-South development and underdevelopment throughout its territory. Today it has been proven that the benefits of economic development have not resolved either fully or relatively the economic sufferings of the most vulnerable sectors of the population.
Editorial
Our Voice
José Luis Valdés-Ugalde
Politics
Dilemmas in the Looking Glass The July 2 Elections
Ricardo Raphael
Mexico’s Stagnating Democracy
Jorge Javier Romero
United States Affairs
Immigration Reform and The Polarization of U.S. Society
J. Jesús Esquivel
North American Issues
Mexico in North America: The Relegated Neighbor?
Raul Rodriguez-Barocio
Mexico-U.S. Relations
Love and Distance Fox and the United States
Leonardo Curzio
Canadian Issues
The First Six Months of the Harper Administration
Teresa Gutiérrez-Haces
Economy
Oil Earnings and Fiscal Policy in Mexico
Fluvio C. Ruiz Alarcón
Remittances in Mexico
Cristóbal Mendoza
Foreign Currency Income From Tourism
Daniel Hiernaux
NAFTA, Mexico and the China Factor
David McHardy Reid
Alethia Jimenez
Peter Rahmer
Museums
A Page of History Under the Brushstroke of the Opposition
Carlos Mújica Suárez
Ecology
The El Carmen-Big Bend Conservation Corridor A U.S.-Mexico Ecological Project
Cecilia Simon
Literature
Plot and Variations in the Writing Of Aline Pettersson
Gloria Prado G.
The Deaths of Natalia Bauer Aline Pettersson’s Most Recent Novel
Graciela Martínez-Zalce Sánchez
Four-Handed Story
By Aline Pettersson
Reviews
Wetback Nation: The Case for Opening The Mexican-American Border, by Peter Laufer
José Luis Valdés-Ugalde
Running on Empty in Central America? Canadian, Mexican and US Integrative Efforts, by Imtiaz Hussain
Jonathan Gilbert Acosta
The Splendor of Mexico
The Juárez Neighborhood
Edgar Tavares López
A Walk Down Juárez Avenue
Ángeles González Gamio
Benito Juárez, a Living Memory
Ángeles González Gamio
Art and Culture
Impure Animals at the UNAM Interview with José Luis Cuevas
Víctor Hugo Vizzuett
The Birth of Cuevas’s Impure Animals
Isaac Masri
Miguel Covarrubias A Genius of Two Cultural Traditions
Alejandro Negrín