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José F. Ramirez, minister of foreign affairs. ; Mode of access: Internet.

In this article, the author criticizes the foreign policy of the government of Felipe Calderon in view of some of the previous rulers as well as in the face of the intricate world reality of today. The essays analyzes the deficits in this matter & ventures some hypothesis of what the administration of Calderon should do to relocate Mexico within its traditional historical position in the American Continent. Adapted from the source document.

The growing visibility of indigenous political organizations and activism in Latin America has a variety of claims and methods to interrelate with the state and organized civil society. These claims are framed within the logic of development and state construction; thus, these political projects fueled by ethnic actors do not have a secessionist outlook. This article addresses the different types of ethnic conflict current in Latin America. It also discusses the practical experience of implementing rights of autonomy. By highlighting the frequent types of ethnic conflict and their prevalence, the author looks forward to proposing a comparative model to explain the different routes taken by the construction of an inclusive, plurinational state led by ethnic actors. The article derives its analysis from the data bank of indigenous organizations, ORGINDAL. Adapted from the source document.

THE BALANCE OF POWER BETWEEN OIL COMPANIES AND THE THIRD WORLD COUNTRIES HAS SHIFTED SHARPLY TO THE COMPANIES. HOW AND WHY THIS SHIFT HAS TAKEN PLACE AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR MEXICO ARE THE SUBJECT OF THIS ARTICLE. THE ARENA OF PRIVATIZATION, PEMEX AND MEXICAN OIL, THE PROBLEM OF GROWTH, AND, WHAT IS TO BE DONE, ARE EACH IN TURN, EXPLORED.

Science and the (meta)physical body: a critique of positivism in the Vasconcelian utopia -- Painting Mestizaje in a new light: racial, technological, and cultural hybridity in the murals of Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco -- Emilio Fernández, Gabriel Figueroa, and the race for Mexico's body: immunization and Lamarckian genetics -- Colonizing resistance: liminal imperiality in the cinema of El Santo and in Carlos Olvera's Mejicanos en el Espacio

From 1866 through 1886, the U.S. Army occupied southern Arizona and New Mexico in an attempt to claim it for settlement by Americans. Through a postcolonial lens, Janne Lahti examines the army, its officers, their wives, and the enlisted men as agents of an American empire whose mission was to serve as a group of colonizers engaged in ideological as well as military, conquest. Cultural Construction of Empire explores the cultural and social representations of Native Americans, Hispanics, and frontiersmen constructed by the officers, enlisted men, and their dependents

Medicine on the Periphery traces the development of Yucatán's medical institutions, public health programs, healers, and changing disease environment from the 1870s through 1960. The biomedicalization of Yucatán's public health system is analyzed within the Atlantic medical community and the emerging revolutionary state of central Mexico.