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Accountability and the Rule of Law in Mexico on the Threshold of the 2006 Elections (poster), September 8-9, 2005
(2005-09-09) Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies (LLILAS)
How well prepared is Mexico for what are likely to be highly contested elections in 2006, and what does the level of preparedness tell us about Mexico's democratic "transition" or "consolidation"? This conference, featured as part of Mexico Month, will examine two principal questions of accountability and rule of law relating to democratization in Mexico and the 2006 elections: 1) assessment of the agreed procedures whereby parties in Mexico select their candidates for executive and legislative offices, taking account of internal rules; gender quotas; and debates relating to eligibility rules for candidates; 2) the adequacy of the institutional architecture relating to the national and sub-national conduct of elections; media access and monitoring, campaign financing etc.
Accountability and the Rule of Law in Mexico on the Threshold of the 2006 Elections (program), September 8-9, 2005
(2005-09-09) Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies (LLILAS)
How well prepared is Mexico for what are likely to be highly contested elections in 2006, and what does the level of preparedness tell us about Mexico's democratic "transition" or "consolidation"? This conference, featured as part of Mexico Month, will examine two principal questions of accountability and rule of law relating to democratization in Mexico and the 2006 elections: 1) assessment of the agreed procedures whereby parties in Mexico select their candidates for executive and legislative offices, taking account of internal rules; gender quotas; and debates relating to eligibility rules for candidates; 2) the adequacy of the institutional architecture relating to the national and sub-national conduct of elections; media access and monitoring, campaign financing etc.
Biographical Information
(1995-04-08) Mexico Center
Breaking Barriers: Women's Achievements in the Mexican Political Arena
(1995-04-08) Alvarez, Olga
De la A a la Z: Una experiencia de pluralismo feminista en Mexico
(1995-04-08) Lamas, Marta
Directory of Conference Participants
(1995-04-08) Mexico Center
Doing Something for Our Communities
(1995-04-08) Zafra, Gloria
Everyday Struggles: Women and Urban Popular Movements in Mexico
(1995-04-08) Bennett, Vivienne
Housing Production & Infrastructure in the Colonias of Texas and Mexico: Towards a Cross Border Dialogue (proceedings), May 5-6, 1995
(1995-05-06) Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies (LLILAS)
The inspiration for this conference and for the two-semester LBJ School Policy Research Project from which it derives began with a Governor's Task Force meeting on the Colonias held here in Austin some three years ago. Indeed, many here today were at that meeting which brought together a mixedconstituency group of academics, public officials, non-governmental organization representatives, religious and other leaders. My presence at that meeting was as one who then knew very little about Texa s "Colonias", but had studied and advised Mexican governments over twenty years on the parallel and much more widespread phenomenon of illegal urban growth and so-called irregular settlements in Mexico (also called colonias). Yet I was surp rised to discover that Texas appeared to be "rediscovering the wheel" in its response to the existence and expansion of its colonia problem. Many researchers and public officials -- invariably in good faith -- were seeking to understand the underl ying causes and nature of colonia growth. They were asking how public policy might respond to colonia land developers? How to effectively address land title ambiguities and insecurities? How to provide essential services of water, power, public transport, and social service infrastructure to low-income and lowdensity populations? How to engage with these settlement populations and with the community development organizations that had evolved within them?
Introductory Remarks
(1995-04-08) Rodríguez, Victoria E.
Keynote Address
(1995-04-08) Richards, Ann
La condición femenina y los medios de comunicación
(1995-04-08) Lovera, Sara
La construcción de organizaciones no gubernamentales de mujeres y la transición a la democracia
(1995-04-08) Tarrés, María Luisa
Las mujeres panistas de Tijuana
(1995-04-08) Venegas, Lilia
Mexico's 2003 Mid-Term Elections: Implications for the LIX Legislature and Party Consolidation (proceedings), September 15-16, 2003
(2003-09-16) Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies (LLILAS)
Five sessions over the course of a day and a half. Our topics include a discussion of the process and outcome of the mid-term elections, voting behavior in these elections, and the implications of the results for politics in the legislature as well as the vitality of the main political parties.
Mexico's Electoral Aftermath and Political Future (proceedings), September 2-3, 1994
(1994-09-03) Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies (LLILAS)
The seeds of the conference upon which this Synthesis/Memoria is based were first sown in 1988. The drama that surrounded the presidential elections of that year, and the serious shortcomings relating to the computation and declaration of the results, left an indelible shadow hanging over the legitimacy of the incoming administration of President Carlos Salinas de Gortari, as well as over the electoral process in Mexico. From the moment that the Gobernacion secretary announced that the electoral computer system had "crashed", there was intense interest and speculation both at home and abroad. Yet these events were so unprecedented that no-one offered a neutral forum in which an informed public discussion might emerge led by researchers and by political analysts. My hope was that in 1994, this opportunity should not be missed by default: hence the Austin meeting organized by the Mexican Center at the University of Texas.
Mexico.U.S. Migration: Rural Transformation and Development (program), April 9-10, 2008
(2008-04-10) Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies (LLILAS)
The purpose of this conference is to bring together international scholars, policymakers, and civil society to explore emerging thought and ideas on the intersection between migration, rural development, and social policy. Participants will share recent trends and research on Mexico-U.S. migration, and related economic, social, cultural and political transformations occurring in rural communities of both nations. Rural places and their inhabitants have been subject to, as well as agents of, processes of globalization and economic liberalization. This has resulted in marked regional asymmetries, highly differentiated local responses, and reconfigurations of social, familial and economic relations. With the .new geography. of Mexican migration to the U.S., a growing number of migrants are settling in rural places in nontraditional destinations such as the American Southeast and Midwest. In Mexico, there has been notable growth in emigration from marginalized, and often indigenous, nontraditional origin southern states such as Veracruz, Chiapas, Oaxaca, and Yucatan, among others. Rural communities on both sides of the border are increasingly interconnected, and interdependent, through the flow of people, money, products, information, ideas, beliefs, and cultural practices. Current immigration policy fails to recognize the intertwined future of rural places on both sides of the border, tied through dependency on either labor or remittances. This represents lost opportunities in the U.S. and in Mexico. This conference will serve as a catalyst for meaningful dialogue on future policy, as well as research and development initiatives, in both Mexico and the U.S. that are aimed at minimizing the negative impacts and maximizing the potential benefits of migration in both rural sending and receiving communities. This forum is also a venue for exploring potential innovative approaches that would provide rural Mexican origin communities with locally based opportunities to improve quality of life, as an alternative to emigration. Indeed it is our hope that the meetings will serve as a point of departure for future collaborative binational research, development, and policy initiatives on migration and rural development in Mexico and the United States. As part of the conference program, and in partnership with Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin.s foremost Mexican art venue, we present Miracles on the Border, an exhibition of retablos created by migrants in which they portray their experiences living and working on both sides of the border. These small, colorful paintings on metal were collected by migration expert Jorge Durand over the years as he conducted research in the field. Professor Durand of the Universidad de Guadalajara will be the conference.s keynote speaker and will deliver his address on agricultural laborers and migration at Mexic-Arte Museum on Wednesday, April 9, from 6:00 to 7:00 p.m. A reception, free and open to the public, will follow. The exhibition will run through May 15, 2008. It is co-organized by Rebecca Torres, Harrington Fellow, Department of Geography, and Bryan Roberts, Director of LLILAS.
Mujeres campesinas y pariticipación social
(1995-04-08) Aranda, Josefina
Mujeres en el espacio local y el poder municipal
(1995-04-08) Massolo, Alejandra
NAFTA and U.S.-Mexico Relations: In Retrospect and Prospect (biographies), February 22-23, 2007
(2007-02-23) Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies (LLILAS)
The Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection of The University of Texas Libraries and the Mexican Center of the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies are organizing a conference to mark the donation to the Benson Collection of the archives on the NAFTA negotiations of the Mexico-U.S. Business Committee. The conference will analyze the history and impact of the North American Free Trade Agreement. A major aim of the conference is to provide an assessment of the NAFTA negotiations and of the resulting agreement in 1993-1994. It is our hope that the recently acquired archival collection will help scholars to research further in this area. A second major aim is to take stock of how NAFTA has worked up to the present and to discuss possible new directions for the agreement. To this end, we intend to invite policymakers and researchers from both Mexico and the United States who can complement each other's perspectives. In an introductory panel, we would like to take a retrospective look at the process of negotiation, review the original goals that the agreement intended to accomplish, and discuss the challenges that the agreement has faced in the last ten years. Our preliminary agenda also would include the following interrelated sets of issues: First, NAFTA's potential role in accelerating Mexico's competitiveness and promoting technological exchange and joint business development initiatives between the U.S. and Mexico; Second, the influence of NAFTA on social development, specifically on poverty and income inequalities in Mexico; Third, the implications of NAFTA for the new dynamics of Mexico-U.S. migration and the public policies emerging on both sides of the border to deal with these new dynamics; Fourth, the rule of law under NAFTA, that is, the impact of NAFTA on the transparency and effectiveness of the domestic law and legal systems of Mexico and the U.S. in areas of environmental protection, intellectual property, labor, etc.; Finally, the effects of NAFTA on U.S.-Mexico relations, especially the nature and adequacy of political and media communication between them.

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