Voices of Mexico no. 96
Our Voice
Mexico’s current foreign policy vision attempts to focus on promoting the country’s development, recognizing that, in the world context, all government institutions in charge of administering and executing the diversity of actions aimed at that end must directly or indirectly benefit from the diplomatic efforts of the Ministry of Foreign Relations itself.
While this orientation is praiseworthy, the country’s economic reality makes it impossible to be optimistic. By last August, gdp growth had fallen to 0.74 percent, while, in May, the figures were only at 0.4 percent, according to National Statistics and Geography Institute (INEGI) data.
The predictions are negative. So, the analysts underline that our economy’s mediocre performance is due to its heavy dependence on the United States. This means that redesigning strategies to balance this model by diversifying Mexico’s trade is urgent, in addition to taking different unavoidable actions like fiscal reform.
Editorial
Our Voice
Silvia Núñez García
Politics
Interview with Anthony Wayne,
U.S. Ambassador in Mexico
Mexico-U.S. Relations Today
Leonardo Curzio
Economy
Small U.S. Latino Businesses
How and When?
Enrique Pino Hidalgo
Diego Manzano Luis
Violence and fdi in Mexico: The Economic
Impact of the “War against Drugs”
Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera
Society
Migrant Routes through Mexico
And the Caravans of Mothers
Júlio da Silveira Moreira
International Affairs
Critical Size. Should the
European Union Stop Growing?
Kurt Schelter
Toward an Agenda for Mexico
International Cooperation
In Science and Technology
Gabriela Sánchez Gutiérrez
Simone Lucatello
Canadian Issues
The New Democratic Party
Canada’s Leading Parliamentary Minority
Oliver Santín Peña
The Splendor of Mexico
Daily Life in the San Francisco Mountains
Araceli Jiménez Pelcastre
The Archaic Great Mural
In the San Francisco Mountains
Manuel Jesús González Manrique
In Memoriam
A TRIBUTE TO RUBÉN BONIFAZ NUÑO
Bonifaz the Philologist Is Fine
Bulmaro Reyes Coria
An Entire Universe
Fernando Serrano Migallón
Life with Bonifaz
Sandro Cohen
Literature
Dark Humor
And the Horror of Postmodernity
Alice Driver
Coordinates of Poetry Out Loud.
Approaches to the History of
The Spoken Word in Mexico
Pilar Rodríguez Aranda
Edwing Roldán Ortiz
Art and Culture
Overview of Mexican
Graphic Design Today
Leonel Sagahón
Designing to Resignify Reality
Mexican Industrial Design
Gina Bechelany
Dressing Mexico
Fashion Design Today
Juan Carlos Rojas Larrondo
Gabriel Orozco
Recovering the Invisible
Antonio Luna
Ciclo: Once Upon
A Border-crossing
Bicycle Trip
Claire Joysmith
Special Section
REFLECTIONS ON OBAMA'S SECOND TERM
U.S. Elections. From Melting Pot to
Multiculturalism in the United States
Imtiaz Hussain
The Re-election of Barack Obama and
Foreign Policy: Smart Power vs. Decline
José Luis Valdés-Ugalde
The Economy, an Ongoing
Concern for the Obama Administration
Elizabeth Gutiérrez Romero
The Dreamers’ Social and Post-Electoral Value
César Pérez Espinosa
Obama and Peña, the New Agenda
Paz Consuelo Márquez-Padilla
The Importance of Immigration
Reform for Obama’s Legacy
Michael D. Layton