Voices of Mexico no. 95
Our Voice
The administration of Enrique Peña Nieto has just celebrated its first 100 days, with a provocative balance sheet framed in what has been dubbed the Pact for Mexico, signed by the country’s three main political forces, the Institutional Revolutionary Party, the National Action Party, and the Party of the Democratic Revolution. With the aim of analyzing, debating, and reaching consensuses to reformulate five key spheres of political endeavor (economic growth, employment, and productivity; security and justice; civil liberties and social rights; transparency, accountability, and the fight against corruption; and the strengthening of democratic governability), the mere idea of breaking the perverse 15-year cycle of divided governments has irrupted onto the national scene as an encouraging sign.
In accordance with this, in the sphere of foreign policy, the Ministry of Foreign Relations has issued the call for the 24th Meeting of Mexican Ambassadors and Consuls and the “Mexico: Globally Responsible Actor” Public Consultation to create synergies for a new era in Mexican diplomacy, centered on the values of peace, inclusion, prosperity, responsibility, and quality education. The country has an enormous need to roll back the negative image created by violence and organized crime, seeking new ways to articulate the imperatives of domestic development with those demanded of us to link up to the rest of the world. If we take into account that, today, Mexico has only 75 embassies and about 68 consulates —in contrast with Brazil, with 128 and 168, respectively— the era that our foreign policy is now entering will not only bring enormous challenges, but the need for more funding and highly trained human resources.
Editorial
Our Voice
Silvia Nuñez García
Politics
Security: Obama and Peña Nieto in 2013
Raúl Benítez Manaut
From Tijuana to Zucotti Park.
A Mexican Caravan Clamors
For Justice in the United States
Ruth A. Dávila Figueroa
Economy
Mexico: A Backward or a Developing Nation?
Eduardo Pérez Haro
Society
Mexico’s Human Rights
Balance Sheet, 2006-2012
Rubén R. García Clarck
Mexico-U.S. Affairs
Two Hundred Years
Of Living Next Door
Roberta Lajous
Canadian Issues
Distant Partners? The State
Of Mexican-Canadian Relations
Interview with Canada’s Governor General
Leonardo Curzio
Museums
Behind the Scenes
At Three Mexican Museums
Teresa Jiménez
The Splendor of Mexico
Mexico City Down through Time…
An Infinite Map
Isabel Morales Quezada
North American Issues
Labor Market Liberalization in North America
Camelia Tigau
From U.S. Immigration Detention Center
To Transnational Call Center
Jill Anderson
In Memoriam
CARLOS FUENTES
A Zeal to Embrace Everything
Elena Poniatowska
Fuentes at a Distance
Hernán Lara Zavala
The Art of Dialogue with Oneself
Ignacio Solares
Reviews
México y Canadá: La agenda pendiente
Óliver Santín Peña
La economía mexicana ante la liberación
financiera. Impacto de la entrada de capitales
externos en el financiamiento de la producción
Violeta R. Núñez Rodríguez
Asunto de mujeres
Claire Joysmith
Art and Culture
THE BORDER
ART BRINGS TOGETHER
WHAT FENCES DIVIDE
Benjamín Serrano
Origins of Bi-cultural Dialogues in Tijuana
Olga Margarita Dávila García
Tijuana Makes Me Happy
Pastiches, Palimpsests, and Cultural Sampling
José Manuel Valenzuela
The Horror in Beauty, the Beauty in Horror:
The Paintings of Rigoberto A. González
John Pluecker
Border Art
Brownsville, Texas–Matamoros, TamaulipasCarlos G. Gómez
Mauricio Sáenz
Reconstructing the Facts According
To Marcos Ramírez, ERRE
José Manuel Springer
Special Section
CLIMATE CHANGE:
SOCIO-ENVIRONMENTAL OUTLOOKS
Narrative, Rhetoric, and Reality
Of Climate Change.
Do We Need More?
Edit Antal
Simone Lucatello
Climate Change and the Media
Revelations of Catastrophes
Juan Carlos Barrón Pastor
Climate Change, Infrastructure,
And the Promethean Myth
Carlos Domínguez
Marie Karaisl
What Is the Carbon Footprint?
Impacts on Mexico
Ruth Zavala Hernández
Climate Change Financing
José Clemente Rueda Abad
Tamar Zehla Jiménez Velázquez
U.S./Mexican Boundary Waters
And Climate Change
Citlalli Aidee Becerril-Tinoco
The Concept of Resilience in
Climate Change Policy Design
In North America
Rafael Calderón-Contreras
Territorial Risks and Climate Change
Daniel Rodríguez Velázquez