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Voices of Mexico: News, Commentary, Documents on Current Events in Mexico and Latin America
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0186-9418
VOM_1987_0004
CONACYT
Autor
Castellanos Moya, Horacio
Martinez, Ofelia
Bonilla, Rafael
Velasco Montante, Astrid
Gispert, Monserrat
Yampolsky, Mariana
Bushwell, Jackie
Ramírez, José Francisco
Haley, Eileen
Thomas, Megan
Cohen, Regina
Infante, Ofelia
Robles Hemanos
Robles Hermanos
Azuela, Rafael
Haley, Eileen
Thomas, Megan
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Resumen
In this fourth issue of Voices, we deal with some of the most important recent events in Mexico and Latin America, in hopes of providing new insights and promoting a better understanding of the realities of our countries. In The Nation we"ve focused on the internal situation in Mexican political parties as they prepare for the upcoming, July 1988 presidential elections. We"ve also included notes on the labor movement and on the controversia! Simpson-Rodino Law that went into effect on May 5. In foreign policy matters, the Mexican government"s recent new accords with Guatemala and Peru were especially important as they re-affirmed our nation"s vocation for Latin American unity. The section devoted to the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) also merits special mention. Since late 1986, the country"s most important center of higher learning has been involved in a reform process that will have one of its culminating moments in the University Congress, scheduled to be held at the end of the year. Given the importance of this process, we"ve run articles by distinguished scholars and members of the University community, expressing their views on such issues as the present and future role of the UNAM in Mexican society and the challenges in teaching, research and cultural extension, among others. Our Latin American Issues section is focused on the Southern Cone this time. Pope John Paul II"s tour, the Brazilian position on the foreign debt and the military threat to Raúl Alfonsin"s government are just some of the current elements of the particularly complex political situation in that region. We"ve also included a Special Report on a unique expedition by Latin American scientists who plan to make the trip by canoe from the heart of the Amazon to the Caribbean island where Christopher Columbus first touched ground in 1942.