Voices No. 92

Winter 2011 - 2012
Índice
Editorial
Our Voice
Silvia Núñez García
Politics
The Media and the 2012 Elections
Roberto Gutiérrez L.
Absentee Voting in Mexico
Too Little of a Good Thing?
Patricio Ballados V.
Mexico: Presidential Elections,
Drug Trafficking, and Corruption
Pablo Cabañas Díaz
Economy
Tequila, Endangered Cultural Heritage
Bernardo Olmedo Carranza
Society
Supreme Auditing in Mexico Today
Juan M. Portal M.
Mexico's Pending Human Rights
Agenda for Children and Adolescents
Bibiana Gómez Muñoz
Public Opinion, Organized Crime,
And National Security in Mexico
Armando Rodríguez Luna
North American Issues
The Effects of Large-Scale
Emigration on Mexico
Elaine Levine
Mexican Brain Drain to
The U.S. and Canada
Camelia Tigau
Entrapment and (Im)Mobility
On the U.S.-Mexico Border
Guillermina Gina Núñez
Josiah McC. Heyman
Art and Culture
Rivelino
Mexican Sculptor of His Time
Rommel Scorza Gaxiola
Sun and Shadows in
Modern Mexican Photography
Manuel Álvarez Bravo,
Agustín Jiménez, and Luis Márquez
Ernesto Peñaloza Méndez
Gerardo Suter
Mexico City. The Penultimate Region
Ery Cámara
Pulque
Mexico's National Beverage?
Javier Gómez Marín
Museums
Museum of Old-Fashioned Toys,
Mexico (Mujam)
Toys that Make History
Isabel Morales Quezada
In Memoriam
Elsie Montiel Ziegler
Much More than an Extraordinary Editor
(1956-2011)
Diego Ignacio Bugeda Bernal
Special Section
September 11
Ten Years On
The United States and the
International Security Agenda.
Counting the Cost, Ten Years On
María Cristina Rosas
The Decade of Terror
Globalization under Surveillance
Leonardo Curzio
Saving the Homeland: Obama's
New Smart Power Security Strategy
José Luis Valdés-Ugalde with Frania Duarte
Dilemmas of Democratic Transition in Mexico,
National Security, and 9/11 in the United States
Abelardo Rodríguez Sumano
Security, Terrorism, and Human Rights
Marco Vinicio Gallardo Enríquez
A Post-September 11, 2001, Decade
And U.S. Anti-Immigration Imaginaries
Claire Joysmith
Post-9/11 Global Health
Benjamín Ruiz Loyola
Environmental Security in North America
Academic Debate or State Policy?
Mario Duarte Villarello
The Ramifications of 9/11 for U.S. Energy Policy
Rosío Vargas
Reviews
Juego y revolución
La literatura mexicana de los años sesenta
Carlos López
Ser migrante
John Washington
Voices No. 91

Autumn 2011
Índice
Editorial
Our Voice
Silvia Núñez García
Politics
The Constitutional Reform
On Human Rights
Raúl Plascencia Villanueva
Globalization and Human Rights.
Reflections about Mexico
Miguel Carbonell
Mexico’s Cancelled or Delayed Political
Reform. Never Ending Story?
Imer B. Flores
Economy
Employment in Mexico
In the First Decade
Of the Twenty-First Century
Ciro Murayama
Society
Southern Border. Chronicle of a Journey
Without Destination?
Josema de Miguel León
North American Issues
Mexico-U.S. Transborder Transportation and The Resolution of the 2001 Arbitral Panel
Juan Manuel Saldaña Pérez
Canadian Issues
Canada´s Election, North America,
And Mexico. Breaking the Circle?
Imtiaz Hussain and Jorge A. Schiavon
The Consolidation of the Conservative Party
In Canada (2006-2011)
Óliver Santin
Art and Culture
Alfredo de Stéfano
The House and the Grave in the Landscape
Juan Antonio Molina
Fernando Gallo's Process A9
Luis Rius Caso
Splendor of Mexico
Men and Women Healers
In Mexico's Indigenous Regions Today
Otomi Specialists from
Hidalgo's Eastern Mountains
Patricia Gallardo Arias
The Eastern Tepehua Shamans. Traditional Healers And Diviners Who Make Women and Old Men
Carlos Guadalupe Heiras Rodríguez
Traditional Nahua Therapy.
Knowing How to See, to Dream, and to Speak
Laura Romero
The Flower Body
María Eugenia Olavarría,
Cristina Aguilar, and Erica Merino
Museums
A Women's History Museum
In Mexico
Patricia Galeana
In Memoriam
Leonora Carrington (1917-2011)
Elena Poniatowska
Special Section
Transparency and the Right to
Information in Mexico
National Security and Transparency
The Case of México
Alonso Gómez-Robledo Verduzco
Transparency
Or Accountability in Mexico
Ángel Trinidad
The Social Focus
On Public Information
Issa Luna Pla
Looking Ahead. Information
In Mexico City´s Federal District
Óscar Guerra
The Right to Environmental Information
In Mexico. The Key to a False Door
Voices No. 90

Spring / Summer 2011
Índice
Editorial
Our Voice
Silvia Núñez García
Politics
Mexico. The Fight
For Security and the
Criminal System Reform
Miguel Carbonell
The Different Left Forces
And the 2011 and 2012 Elections
Pablo Cabañas Díaz
Economy
Mexico's Foreign Trade Challenge:
Diversification and Comprehensiveness
Fausto Kubli-García
Transformations in Food Supply
In Mexican Cities
Felipe Torres Torres
Society
Mexico's Southern Border
Security and Migratory Crisis
Natalia Armijo Canto
North American Issues
Ideological and Cultural Bases
For Arizona's sb 1070
Javier Durán
The Kickapoo of Coahuila/Texas
Cultural Implications of Being
A Cross-border Nation
Elisabeth A. Mager Hois
Art and Culture
UNAM Art museums
In Memoriam
Helen Escobedo's Transparency
Jorge Reynoso Pohlenz
Helen Escobedo: A Brief Biography
María Cristina Hernández Escobar
Literature
The Making of Self as Bridge:
Pilar Rodríguez Aranda, Poet, and Videopoet
Claire Joysmith
Bilingüe Fool
A Poem by Pilar Rodríguez Aranda
Special Section
Beyond the Macondo Oil Disaster
Reviews
Casinos y poder
El caso del Kickapoo Lucky Eagle Casino
Hernán Salas Quintanal
Fronteras de tinta: Literatura y medios de
comunicación en las Américas.
Una bibliografía comentada
César Othón Hernández
Voices No. 89

Winter 2010/2011
Índice
Editorial
Our Voice
Silvia Núñez García
Politics
Mexico’s Futures
The Editors
Mexico 2011
Parliamentarianism Now
Ricardo Becerra
Human Rights Crisis in Mexico
Rubén R. García Clarck
Society
The Mexican Brain Drain Today
Camelia Tigau
Derailing History
Indian Rebellions and the Mexican
Revolution’s Status Discussion
Rodolfo Uribe Iniesta
Economy
EU and U.S. Manufacturing
Multinationals in Mexico
Elisa Dávalos
History
Memory and Oblivion
Agustina Ramírez and María Zavala:
Two Women and Two Wars in Mexico
Ana María Saloma Gutiérrez
Reflections on a Revolution
Notes on Mexican
Women Then and Now
Heather Dashner Monk
Commemorative Section
The unam: 100 Years in the Pursuit
Of a Better Nation
unam: A Place of Learning,
Knowledge, and Culture
Rector José Narro Robles
The First 100 Years
Of the National University
Lourdes M. Chehaibar Náder
A Comprehensive
Review of University Patrimony
María Ascensión Morales Ramírez
A Century in the Cultural Life of the unam
UNAM Office of Cultural Outreach
Communications Department
The unam Film Archives
50 Years of Cinema in the University
José Manuel García Ortega
Adriana López
The University Program
“Mexico, a Multicultural Nation”
José Manuel del Val Blanco
Special Section
The un Security Council
As Seen by Mexican Analysts
Mexico in the United Nations
Security Council
Understanding the Debate on
un Security Council Reform
G. Isaac Morales Tenorio
Mexico and Brazil
Agendas and Achievements
María Cristina Rosas
The United States and the Security Council
Guillermo J. R. Garduño Valero
The United Kingdom
Notes for a Strategic Perspective
Carlos Ballesteros
France and Africa and
Realignment with the
U.S. on the Iranian Question
Moisés Garduño
China and the un Security Council in 2010
Rodrigo Manuel Hernández Segovia
Agreements and Disagreements
Between Russia and Mexico
Daniel Añorve
North American Issues
Potential Impacts of
The 2010 U.S. Midterm Elections
Manuel Chavez
World Issues
Challenge from China
A Short Study Trip
Leonardo Curzio
The World Mayors Summit on Climate
Beatriz Bugeda Bernal
In Memoriam
Bolívar Echeverría (1941-2010)
Ignacio Díaz de la Serna
Reviews
Políticas migratorias y movilidad laboral en Estados Unidos, España y Singapur
Leticia Calderón
Voices No. 88

Autumn 2010
Índice
Editorial
• Our Voice
Silvia Núñez García
Politics
• Interview with Arturo Sarukhán,Mexican Ambassador to the United States
Leonardo Curzio
• Mexico and the International Environmental Agenda
María Cristina Rosas
Economy
• China’s Impact on Mexican,Canadian and U.S. Trade The Beginning of nafta’s Decline?
Enrique Pino Hidalgo
North American Issues
• Eating Patterns in Mexican and U.S. Marginalized Groups in the 1940s
Bernardo Olmedo Carranza
100 Years of History
From Independence To the Revolution Six Views from the Present
Alfredo Ávila
2. Independent, Inexperienced and Disorganized Political Life in Mexico (1821-1855)
María del Carmen Vázquez Mantecón
3. The Significance of the Reform Period (1855-1862)
Silvestre Villegas Revueltas
4. “When We Were an Empire” The Monarchical Experiment in Mexico (1864-1867)
Érika Pani
5. From the Restoration of the Republic to the Dictatorship of a Single Man (1867-1910)
Evelia Trejo
6. The Mexican Revolution (1910-1917)
Álvaro Matute
Art and Culture
• Film and the Mexican Revolution
David M. J. Wood
An Homage to Carlos Monsiváis
• Mexico since September 11, 2001
Carlos Monsiváis
• Carlos Monsiváis as Testmonialist
Claire Joysmith
• Carlos Monsiváis Catechizing Mephistopheles
Adolfo Castañón
• Nostalgia for Monsiváis
Jezreel Salazar
Special Section: The Cascading Effects of Arizona’s sb 1070
• The Cascading Effects of Arizona’s sb 1070 An Overview
Erik Lee
• The Immigration Debate about Mexicans
Jaime R. Aguila
• Obama and the Anti-Mexican sb 1070
Mónica Verea
• Human Rights and the Fetishization of sb 1070
Ariadna Estévez López
• Arizona’s New Anti-immigrant Law and Federal Immigration Reform
Doris Marie Provine
• The United States vs. Arizona.The Power Struggle Over Setting Immigration Enforcement Priorities
Evelyn Cruz
• Arizona’s Law: The Wrong Strategy
Paz Consuelo Márquez-Padilla
• On the Labyrinths of sb 1070
Silvia Núñez García
• Concluding Thoughts
D. Rick van Schoik
Literature
• Liliana Valenzuela, a Contemporary Malinche: On Being a Bilingual and Bicultural Creative Scribe
Interview by Claire Joysmith
• Nov. 2, 1998: On the Eve of Becoming an American Citizen
A Poem by Liliana Valenzuela
Reviews
• Celebrating Mexico’s History
Arturo Cosme Valadez
Voices No. 87

Spring - Summer 2010
Índice
Editorial
• Our Voice
Politics
• Interview with Carlos Pascual, U.S. Ambassador to Mexico
Leonardo Curzio
• The Importance of Setting Agendas President Calderón’s Proposal for Political Reform
Fernando Dworak
North American Issues
• The Schengen Cooperation According to the Lisbon Treaty A Model for the Americas?
Kurt Schelter
• Barack Obama and the House upon a Rock
Paz Consuelo Márquez-Padilla
• U.S.-Latin American Relations An Alternative Geopolitical Approach?
José Luis Valdés-Ugalde And Bernadette Vega
Splendor of Mexico Centennial UNAM
• The Institute of Biology’s Botanical Garden A Gem Nestled in the UNAM
Javier Caballero Nieto
• Ofunam: Music Lives in the University
Interview with Alejandro Guzmán Rojas
• The University Olympic Stadium Harmony in Time and Space
Isabel Morales Quezada
• The University Contemporary Art Museum. A Living Space
Jorge Reynoso Pohlenz
• The UNAM’s Exceptional Contemporary Medal Collection
Elsie Montiel
Homage to Lorenzo Ochoa
• Lorenzo Ochoa Salas Friend and Contributor to Voices of Mexico
• A Singular Man, a PluralWay of Seeing
Mario Humberto Ruz
• Traveling through the Huaxteca With Lorenzo
Gerardo Gutiérrez
• A Sketch of His Career
Eladio Terreros Espinosa
Special Section: Crime and Violence in Mexico
• Ciudad Juárez,War Zone
Raúl Benítez Manaut
• Aims and Limits of the Mérida Initiative
Armando Rodríguez Luna
• The Mérida Initiative on the Mexico-U.S. Border
José María Ramos García
• The Costs of Violence as a Strategy For U.S.-Mexico Border Security
Pablo Cabañas Díaz
• Homicides and Organized Violence in Mexico,1990-2008
Malgorzata Polanska
Society
• Climate Change What Is Expected from Mexico in 2010?
Edit Antal
• From Human Rights to Civil Rights. The Unavoidable Challenges Of International Migration
Ariadna Estévez López
In Memoriam
• Carlos Rico Ferrat, a Good Heart Guided by Solidarity (1950-2010)
Reviews
• Canícula. Snapshots of a Girlhood en la Frontera And Canícula. Imágenes de una niñez fronteriza
Claire Joysmith
• Diplomacia en la era digital. La ayuda alimentaria como maniobra neoliberal
Leonardo Díaz Abraham
Voices No. 84

Enero - Abril 2009
Índice
Editorial
• Our Voice
Politics
• The 2009 Elections Perspectives and Challenges
Lorenzo Córdova Vianello
• Security without Rights, or What Went Wrong with the National Security Accord?
Luis González Placencia
• Drug-Trafficking-Related Violence in Mexico Organization and Expansion
José Arturo Yáñez Romero
Economy
• The Bail-Out and the Causes Of the Financial Crisis
Monica Gambrill
• The Impact of the Global Crisis in Mexico For Whom Does the Bell Toll?
Enrique Pino Hidalgo
Art and Culture
• Puuc Style Mayan Cities Trimmed in Stone
Adriana Velázquez Morlet
• Notes on Izamal City of Three Cultures
Luis Millet Cámara
• Julio Galán Painting as Diary
Isabel Morales Quezada
North American Issues
• Obama and Mexico, Security Forever!Why Not?
José Luis Valdés-Ugalde
• Rethinking President Obama’s Victory and Challenges
Silvia Núñez García
• Obama and Mexico New Paths of Hope
Leonardo Curzio
• The Birth of the Virtual Political Community And the Victory of Barack Obama
Paz Consuelo Márquez-Padilla
• President Obama And Latinos in the U.S.
Elaine Levine
World Affairs
• Food Crisis: Is It Really About Food?
Camelia Nicoleta Tigau
• Understanding the World Food Crisis And Its Effects in Mexico
Ciro Murayama
Special Section: Mexico and the World
• Beyond Politics: Cultural Connections among Mexico, Romania and Poland
José Luis Valdés-Ugalde
Camelia Tigau
• A Discreet Look at Africa from Mexico
Louis Valentin Mballa
• Mexico and India: Slowly Approaching Each Other from Afar
Bernadette Vega
• Lessons for Mexico: Chile and Brazil’s Experience with China
María José Calderón Matute
The Splendor of Mexico
• A Glimpse of Ek’ Balam Leticia Vargas de la Peña
Víctor R. Castillo Borges
• Dzibilchaltún A Mayan Regional Center
Rubén Maldonado Cárdenas
• Yucatán’s Green Gold
Elsie Montiel
• The Ingredients in Yucatán Cuisine
Elsie Montiel and Isabel Morales
Museums
• The Cantón Palace. Yucatán’s Regional Anthropology Museum
Blanca M. González Rodríguez
In Memoriam
• Don Ernesto de la Torre Villar. Professor Emeritus
Ana Carolina Ibarra
Reviews
• La americanización de la modernidad. Bolívar Echeverría, compiler
Julio Roldán
• Aquella Luz, la que estremece/ The Light That Makes Us Tremble, Nela Rio (Hugh Hazelton, trans.)
Claire Joysmith