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Comment
CLAS Chair Harley Shaiken introduces this issue of the Review.
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Contents
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Special
Section:
The U.S.-Mexico Futures Forum 2008
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Torre
Mayor and Diana, Avenida de la Reforma,
Mexico City.
(photo: Omar Hernández)
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The
U.S.-Mexico Futures Forum brings together diverse
participants from both sides of the border in
a series of conferences that seek to illuminate
the U.S.-Mexico relationship.
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U.S.
Representative Linda Sánchez (left)
and Mexican Senator Adriana González
Carillo at the Forum in Mexico City.
(photo: Antonio del Valle) |
Bridges
or Barriers?
Catha
Worthman provides an overview of the highlights
of the 2008 U.S.–Mexico Futures Forum in
Mexico City.
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North
America at night.
(photo: courtesy of NASA) |
Energy
Shock
UC
Berkeley professor Daniel Kammen outlines the energy
challenges facing North America and the world in the
coming decades.
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Solar
panel in Tulum, Mexico.
(photo: Bryan J. Busch) |
Alternative
Energy
Mexico
City’s Minister of the Environment, Martha Delgado,
argues that the Mexican energy debate should be broadened
to include both efficiency and alternatives to petroleum.
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A
Pemex station in Ojos Negros, Baja California.
(photo:
Lee Panich) |
Reforming
Pemex
Cuauhtémoc
Cárdenas weighs in with his ideas for reforming
Pemex.
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The
Tijuana-San Diego border.
(photo: Bisayan lady) |
Immigration
Reform: A Bitter Tide Begins to Ebb
Tamar
Jacoby analyzes the current political context for immigration
reform in the United States.
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The
Mexican consulate in Los Angeles.
(photo:
César Octavio López
Natarén) |
Migrant
Voices
Futures
Forum co-convener Rafael Fernández de Castro
reports on the requests of migrants during Mexican
President Felipe Calderón’s multi-city
trip to the United States.
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Yolanda
Araujo signals her status at a protest.
(photo: Jeffrey Long)
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A Mexico
in the United States?
Maria
Echaveste responds to Prof. Fernández de Castro’s
report from a U.S. policy perspective.
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Foreclosure
bus tours in San Diego, California.
(photo:
Cory Doctorow) |
When
the U.S.
Catches a Cold…
Héctor
Rangel Domene, Chairman of the Board of Directors
of BBVA Bancomer, provides an analysis of Mexico’s
current economic position.
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Police
patrol in Tijuana.
(photo from Associated Press)
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Violence
and Drugs: Divide, Then Conquer?
Professor
Frank E. Zimring puts forth an innovative proposal
for addressing Mexico’s drug, violence and corruption
problems.
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Relatives
mourn the slain editor of a Veracruz paper.
(photo
from Associated Press) |
Life,
Death and Journalism on the Border
Ricardo
Sandoval brings to life the dangers facing journalists
reporting on the U.S.–Mexico border.
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Dean Christopher
Edley Jr. at the Forum.
(photo:
Antonio del Valle) |
Priorities
for the Next President
Law
School Dean Christopher Edley Jr. outlines the
pressing challenges facing the incoming U.S. president.
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Special
Section: Stan Ovshinsky
·U.S-Mexico ·Ovshinsky ·More |
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Solar
flares.
(photo: courtesy of NASA) |
A
Revolution Fueled by the Sun
Ground-breaking
scientist Stanford Ovshinsky makes his case for “the
hydrogen loop” during his CLAS talk reported
on by graduate student Avery Cohn.
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Stan
Ovshinsky.
(photo: Matty Nematollahi) |
Bienenstock
on Ovshinsky
In
this excerpt from Arthur Bienenstock’s introduction
to Stanford Ovshinsky’s Berkeley talk, the noted
scientist and president of the American Physical Society
enumerates Ovshinsky’s
many contributions to science and technology.
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Stan
and Iris Ovshinsky diagram the hydrogen loop.
(photo courtesy of Stanford R. Ovshinsky) |
The
Einstein of Alternative Energy?
Harley
Shaiken provides a personal look at noted scientist
Stanford Ovshinsky.
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Orozco paints
Quetzalcoatl.
(Photo: Dartmouth College Library) |
Violent
Visions in a Silent Space
Jacquelynn
Baas documents the history of how José Clemente
Orozco’s powerful murals came to be painted
on the Dartmouth campus.
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"Cortez
and the Cross" detail, panel 13 of "The
Epic of American Civilization."
(photo: Trustees of Dartmouth College) |
‘The
Epic of American Civilization’
Selections
from “The Epic of American Civilization,” José Clemente
Orozco’s mural cycle on the Dartmouth campus.
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Salt
collection in Peru.
(photo: Dave Lansley) |
Wealth
and Poverty in Latin
America
Peruvian
President Alejandro Toledo (2001–06) discusses
the slow progress of Latin American poverty-reduction
despite the region’s macroeconomic gains
in his CLAS talk reported on by graduate student
Maiah Jaskoski.
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A
line forms for milk rations in Venezuela.
(photo: Rafael Navarro) |
Venezuela’s
Prospects for Democracy
Teodoro
Petkoff argues that Venezuela “combines the anatomy
of a democratic regime with the physiology of an authoritarian
one” in his CLAS talk covered by graduate student
Taylor Boas.
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Intellectuals
and Totalitarianism
In
this excerpt from the question and answer session following
his talk, Teodoro Petkoff discusses the disturbing
tendency of intellectuals to support totalitarian regimes.
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An
internet bodega in Guatemala.
(photo: Doug Cadmus) |
Expectations
Collide With Reality
Chilean
Ambassador Juan Gabriel Valdés provides an analysis
of the trajectory of Latin American democracies in
his public talk reported on by graduate student Taylor
Boas.
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Rollout
of a new Embraer jet.
(photo courtesy of Embraer) |
Innovate
Locally, Compete Globally
Glauco
Arbix argues that top-tier Brazilian firms are now
able to compete internationally with medium- and high-technology
goods in his CLAS talk covered by graduate student
Daniel I. Buch.
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"Vintage" refrigerators
loaded onto a truck.
(Photo: Mónica González) |
A
New ‘Cold War’?
Graduate
student and Tinker Summer Research Grant recipient
Mónica González describes the day
Cubans said goodbye to their 20th century refrigerators.
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Church
of La Merced, Antigua, Guatemala.
(photo: Doron Derek Laor) |
History
Into Fiction
Graduate
student and novelist Sylvia Sellers-García
recounts the circumstances that inspired her first
novel: When the Ground Turns in Its Sleep.
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Oil
slick on a tributary of Ecuador's Napo river.
(Photo: 00rini Hartmann) |
Excerpt
from ‘State of the Planet’
In
this excerpt from “State of the Planet” by
UC Berkeley professor and Pulitzer-prizewinner Robert
Hass, the poet describes an oil-slicked riverscape
in Tena , Ecuador .
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