Issue 147:

Announcing a special issue of Latin American Perspectives, March-April 2006 (33:2) 

The Mexican Presidency, 2006-2012:
Neoliberalism, Social Movements, and Electoral Politics

[Helguera en La Jornada, August 3, 2005]

Issue 147, March 2006 Volume 33, Number 2
Issue Editors: Jan Rus and Miguel Tinker-Salas
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This special issue of Latin American Perspectives continues the journal’s tradition of providing a forum for discussing historical turning points in Latin American progressive politics and debating the ideas behind them.  The issue draws together leading Mexican intellectuals on the left to assess Mexico’s July, 2006, presidential elections.  Scholars, journalists, activists, and advisors to left political organizations and candidates, the authors are seldom heard in the United States except through the refracted lens of North American academics.  Their twelve original essays address Mexico’s current economic condition, undocumented workers and the border, the situation of human rights, women’s rights, the labor and indigenous movements, the media, and the various political parties and their strategies.  Written with a U.S. audience in mind, the authors make a particular effort to assess the impact of the U.S. on Mexico, and to explain Mexico’s reality and perspectives in ways that will be accessible to students as well as popular readers.

Introduction: Mexico 2006-2012: High Stakes, Daunting Challenges
     Jan Rus and Miguel Tinker Salas 

Mexico's 2006 Elections: The Rise of Populism and the End of Neoliberalism?
     Alejandro Alvarez Bejar

Migration and Imperialism: The Mexican Workforce in the Context of NAFTA
     Raul Delgado Wise

Migration and Borders: Present and Future Challenges
     Olivia Ruiz

Neither Truth nor Justice: Mexico's De Facto Amnesty
     Sergio Aguayo Quezada and Javier Trevino Rangel

The Political Struggle 

Images of the Dirty TV-War: The Hour of Mediacracy
     Luis Hernandez Navarro

One Triangle, Two Campaigns
     Adolfo Gilly

What Is Left of the Mexican Left?
     Enrique Semo

Which PRI Wants to Win the Election?
     Carlos Montemayor

Civil Society and Popular Resistance

The State, the Bourgeoisie, and the Unions: The Recycling of Mexico's System of Labor Control
     Richard Roman and Edur Velasco Arregui

Violencia Femicida: Violence Against Women and Mexico's Structural Crisis
     Mercedes Olivera

The Indigenous Movement in Mexico: Between Electoral Politics and Local Resistance
     Rosalva Aida Hernandez Castillo

Building a Future for Rural Mexico
     David Barkin

Commentary: Report on Bolivia's Elections
     James Lerager

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