Voices of Mexico no. 80
Our Voice
George W. Bush is getting increasingly weaker and has been progressively losing credibility. Even his most loyal allies at home and abroad view him with suspicion. His political position has weakened and his initiatives have been systematically rejected by broad layers of society and the national and international political classes, who have been increasingly wounded by his government's clumsy arrogance and offensiveness. He bet on policies so extreme that he got burned and burned his possibilities of governing effectively and with dignity. His skirmishes with Congress are indicative of the fix he is in. Trailing behind him is a veritable political shipwreck that not even Truman or Nixon endured at their worst moments
This is the head of the most powerful nation in the history of the global village, who opted to exercise hard power —and now he is paying for it— and, as a result, his foreign policy, particularly in the Middle East and Iraq, have stopped being rational. Its rational center, which guaranteed U.S. leaders certain equilibrium in local and interna- tional decision-making, has been lost. Inside the United States, the facts testify eloquently to this crisis.
Editorial
Our Voice
José Luis Valdés-Ugalde
Politics
Mexico's New Electoral Reforms Consolidating the Rules of Political Competition
Roberto Gutiérrez L.
Mexico: Transparency and the Constitution
Ricardo Becerra
Economy
Canada and Mexico Minor Players in North America's Economic Integration?
Enrique Pino Hidalgo
Fiscal Reform and Public Finance The Economy Continues to Stagnate
Gregorio Vidal
Literature
Death in Mexico's
Pre-Hispanic Poetry
Arturo Cosme Valadez
Rosa María Jasso
North American Issues
The Real Reform: "Enforcement Only"
Mónica Verea
Congress, Border Security and Immigration. Fences of Political IrresponsibilityCésar Pérez Espinosa
Society
Education in Mexico
Eduardo Andere M.
Who's at Fault? Drug-trafficking Violence in Mexico
J. Jesús Esquivel
A Panorama of Science In Mexico Today
Mario Guillermo González Rubi
Ecology
Agriculture in Calakmul Resiliency, Sustainability or a Better Standard of Living?
Francisco D. Gurri García
Museums
The San Miguel Museum Colonial Architecture and Mayan Archaeology
Marco Antonio Carvajal Correa
Reviews
Recursos naturales estratégicos Los hidrocarburos y el agua
Edmundo Hernández-Vela S.
Encuentros y desencuentros entre México y Estados Unidos en el siglo XX Del porfiriato a la posguerra fría
Bibiana Gómez Muñoz
Roberto Gutiérrez
Femenino/masculino en las literaturas de América. Escrituras en contraste
Nair Anaya Ferreira
Splendor of Mexico. Campeche
The Walled City of Campeche
Elsie Montiel
Mayan Architectural Styles in Campeche
Leticia Staines Cícero
Authentic Refined Cuisine
Jorge Javier Romero
Art and Culture
Frida
The First Hundred Years
Roxana Velásquez Martínez del Campo
Guillermo Kahlo-Henry Greenwood Two Views of Monumental Architecture
Guillermo Tovar de Teresa