Voices of Mexico no. 97
Our Voice
During the first four-month period of 2014, Mexico’s foreign policy agenda was crisscrossed with several particularly significant events. Among them were the twentieth anniversary of nafta coming into effect, the commemoration of seven decades of diplomatic relations with Canada, and Mexico’s hosting of the North American Leaders’ Summit.
Undoubtedly, all this caught the attention of the national media and public opinion, and in the background was the fact that on Mexico’s domestic political scene, enormously important debates were already taking place in light of the reforms President Enrique Peña Nieto promoted in strategic spheres like education, telecommunications, politics, and energy.
While the central objective of all these reforms was to make a structural turn that would change not only laws but institutions, we will only be able to measure their efficacy in light of their implementation in the medium term.
Editorial
Our Voice
Silvia Núñez García
Politics
The Energy Reform, or Pushing the Mexican
State Out of the Energy Sector
Rosío Vargas Suárez
Roberto Barrios
A New Political Reform: From IFE to INE
Carlos González Martínez
Society
Human Rights in Mexico After
The Universal Periodic Review
Rubén García Clarck
Canada’s Aboriginal Peoples,
Still a Pending Issue
Ruth A. Dávila Figueroa
International Affairs
Seventy Years of Mexican-Canadian Relations
A Vision for the Future
Silvia Núñez García
Impacts of the Drug War on
Mexico’s Image in Canada
Camelia Tigau
Berenice Fernández Nieto
Literature
Globalization and Other Acts of Violence
Power and Death in the Contemporary
Mexican-Sinaloan Novel
Miguel A. Cabañas
Juan Rulfo
Elena Poniatowska
The Splendor of Mexico
The Journey,
A Visual Testimony of Migration
Teresa Jiménez Andreu
El Triunfo, Home to a Thousand Wonders
Chico Suárez
Museums
Museum of Memory and Tolerance,
Learning So We Never Forget
Isabel Morales Quezada
In Memoriam
A TRIBUTE TO WRITER JOSÉ EMILIO PACHECO
JEP: Internal Inventory
Miguel Ángel Quemain
Continually Reread
Fernando Serrano Migallón
The World as Agora
Miguel Ángel Flores
Poets Don’t Die
Hernán Lavín Cerda
Art and Culture
Charrería’s Feminine Side
Leslie Mazoch
Homemade, by María Tello
Manuel Andrade
Immigrants’ Intangible
Cultural Heritage
Mexicans and Their Culture Abroad
Paola Virginia Suárez Ávila
Special Section
Conservative Canadian Government
Actions since Consolidating Its Majority in 2011
Oliver Santín
The Harper Government,
The End of Cultural Diplomacy
And Canadian Studies Around the World
Delia Montero C.
Mexicans and Canadian Immigration Policies
Less Exile, More Undocumented
Migrants and Deportations
David Rocha Romero
Unions, Labor Relations, and Political
Parties in Canada under Neoliberalism
Roberto Zepeda
Canadian Culture for the Mexican Public
Graciela Martínez-Zalce
The Humanities, a Door for
“Temporary” Agricultural Migrants
To Canada
Aaraón Díaz Mendiburo
Mexico and North America:
Regional Limits and Priorities
Rafael Velázquez Flores