Food as Voice

In 2020, forty women craft brewers (cerveceras artesanales) gathered in the city of Colima to brew a beer called Impetuosa. A hoppy lager flavored with aromatic New Zealand hops, Impetuosa raised $136,000 pesos for civil associations dedicated to supporting women. The project proved so successful at creating solidarity among women in the decidedly masculine world of craft beer that it became an annual event featuring a different beer style each year. By 2023, it attracted more than 200 women from craft breweries and brewing collectives with names like Adelitas, Pintas Poblanas, and La Perruchona. This female craft movement sought to reclaim a tradition of brewing cacao beer and pulque in Mexico that existed for thousands of years before the commercialization of indigenous beverages by Spaniards and the arrival of industrial beers from Europe

Mexico-United States An Uncertain Future

When I read the news and see what’s going on in the world, I’m overcome with the question: How have we arrived at this moment of hyperpolitics? First it was postpolitics. In 2008, at the height of the Great Recession, Annie Ernaux published her autobiographical book The Years; she argued that after the 1990s, politics was dead, and history was in its twilight years. After that, many thinkers found similarities between what this Nobel laureate was describing and what was happening in the first decade of the twenty-first century

Art & Culture

Ella This morning/a flock of pigeons peck at the moss on the wire fence / the kitchen radiates light / I’m making an espresso / I have the phone in one hand / I’m talking to my mother / She is / hundreds of kilometers away / I listen to her talking about what she did yesterday / about a news item they showed / on television / but I don’t understand what she’s saying very well / I drink my coffee / I zone out while looking at a photo mural / in a neighbor’s apartment / the sky clouds over / My mother tells me that a track in the sand / is lik

Mexico-United States An Uncertain Future

Trumpism is one of the world’s authoritarian pivots. It would be wrong to think that it represents a moment within democratic normalcy and is just an example of rotation in office in the United States. Trump is an authoritarian leader who has legitimately risen to office through elections, and once in office, he has begun a series of actions against his adversaries and critical publics, intimidating the media and universities, abolishing affirmative action programs, and centralizing decisions. His actions and narrative subvert the rules, institutions, and democratic values

Análisis de Sentimientos sobre la COVID-19 en la Comunidad Virtual de Twitter

Las redes sociales son medios que permiten la interacción entre individuos con intereses diversos. A partir de la gran cantidad de textos y datos que se intercambian en Facebook, Twitter, entre otras redes, se ha dado un fuerte interés por estudiar las tendencias que hay en las redes sociales y el análisis de sus contenidos. Con la emergencia sanitaria por la Covid-19, que surgió a finales de 2019, y a partir del confinamiento que se generalizó en el mundo, se observó un crecimiento en el uso de tecnologías de la información y la comunicación. Pronto la soledad o el aislamiento social que apareció a causa de las limitaciones en el contacto físico para contener las infecciones hizo que creciera el uso de las redes sociales (Tala y Vásquez, 2020). Entre las comunidades virtuales que dialogan sobre la pandemia de la Covid-19, sin duda alguna se identifica la de los especialistas en medicina como el grupo más interesado en el tema, pero también están otros. Para co nocer cuáles son los aspectos sobre los que se intercambia información en redes, existen diversas metodologías que permiten extraer y analizar datos, entre las que se encuentra el análisis de sentimientos

Art & Culture

Trump is back, and panic has quickly taken hold. But while this comeback may herald an era marked by policies and practices focused on excluding historically vulnerable sectors within the United States, it is also true that the administration actions are merely a remake. Typical of the Trump administration, they are a sequel or exacerbation of something that was already in the air: the open promotion of laws, ordinances, decrees, and acts that seek to revoke rights, for example, of migrants and transgender people. As in any sequel, there a** is villain. Crafted in Hollywood style, this villain whowas believed to be an old threat has returned and continues to carry out their plan. And the villain is accompanied by a cast of characters who, from their niches, seek to take their rejection of difference in all its expressions to the extreme

Mexico and the United States 200 Years of Shared History

The shared history of Mexico and the United States, commemorated in this issue to begin the celebration of the bicentennial of diplomatic relations, has also traversed the modern history of the National University. In the early twentieth century, on the eve of another centennial, that of Mexico’s independence, Don Justo Sierra asked legal scholar Ezequiel A. Chávez to travel to the United States to observe how its universities were constituted and how they functioned. From his observations would be born the Law to Establish the National University of Mexico, today the unam. This is why it is no exaggeration to say that the United States was also present in the foundation of our university. From then on, and due to that country’s preeminence on the world stage, its importance for our nation because of its geographical proximity, and the intense economic, migratory, and cultural exchange between the two, our university has given the former an outstanding place among all the countries it studies and with which it has developed academic exchanges. In the sphere of research, in 1988, the University Program for Research on the United States of America was cre- ated, the direct predecessor of the Center for Research on the United States of America (CISEUA), now the Center for Research on North America (CISAN). This issue of Voices of Mexico brings together reflections about the many complex dimensions of our shared history. They range from our diplomatic relations in the times of James Monroe and the first Mexican Empire, to the challenges to bilateral relations in the twenty-first century in the post- Trump and post-covid era.“Our Voice”, “Mexico and the United States, a Singular Bond Interview with Marcela Terrazas” / Jiménez, Teresa; “Roosevelt, Cárdenas, and the Good Neighbor Policy” / Espasa, Andreu; “Mexico-United States: To Cooperate or Not to Cooperate” / Valdés-Ugalde, José Luis; “The Bicentennial of Mexico-U.S. Relations” / Curzio, Leonardo; “U.S.-Mexico Relations Interdependence and Paradiplomacy” / Zepeda, Roberto; “A Brief Review of Mexico-U.S. Relations” / Márquez-Padilla, Paz Consuelo; “Is Mexico Better Off with a Donkey Or an Elephant in the White House?”/ Cruz Lera, Estefanía; “Biden’s “De-Trumpization” of Migration Policy: The López Obrador Response” / Verea, Mónica; “Notes to Bolster a Future with More Women in Mexico-U.S. Relations” / Núñez García, Silvia; “Mexico and the United States Security: Historic and Current Dilemmas” / Benítez Manaut, Raúl; “Two Fossil Fuel Producers in the Face of Climate Change: Mexico and the United States” / Antal, Edit; “Two Centuries of History Mexico-U.S. Bilateral Relations” / Hernández Aguilar, Bryan Alan; “North A Fortnight in the Wilderness by Zazil Alaíde Collins Relative” / Hall, María Cristina, Illustrations by Galván, Xanic; “There and Back Interview with Tatiana Parcero” / Bechelany Fajer, Gina; “Logan Ryland Dandridge All My Gods Are Black” / Soler Frost, Jaime; “Cultural Relations Imbalances Due to Disparity in Sociopolitical Realities” / Peredo Castro, Francisco; ““South of the Border (Down Mexico Way)” The Musical Comings and Goings Between Mexico and the United States” / Palacios Franco, Julia E.; “Mexican Migration to the United States: Belonging, Identities, and Uprootedness A Literary Perspective” / Flores, Mariana; “The Different Origins of the Press and of Published Political Discussion in Mexico and the United States” / Barrón Pastor, Juan Carlos; “Embajadores de Estados Unidos en México Diplomacia de crisis y oportunidades by Roberta Lajous, Erika Pani, Paolo Riguzzi, and María Celia Toro, comps.” / Luna Ana

Mexico-United States An Uncertain Future

While Donald Trump received overwhelming support from farming-dependent counties during the 2024 presidential election, the consequences for farmers seem far from favorable. Deportation threats against the workforce, the cancelation of contracts with food banks and usaid, the freezing of funds tied to Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act—which included $19.5 billion for farmers—and the prospect of retaliatory tariffs on U.S. agricultural exports—worth$139.6 billion in 2018—3 pose a complicated scenario for farms across the country. As to the impact of immigrant raids on farms, it’s worth noting that, according to the Center for Migration Studies, 86 percent of farm workers are foreign born, and 45 percent are undocumented. So, have Trump’s threats around mass deportation crystalized? Have they scared agricultural workers into staying home? Are crops rotting in the fields

Metodología para el Análisis Semántico de los Datos Compartidos en Redes Sociales

El concepto de dataismo ha marcado una notable tendencia en el contexto académico y científico actual. El valor y la importancia de los datos nunca han tenido tanto auge como se manifiesta en la toma de decisiones que actualmente se ejerce dentro de las grandes industrias y los sectores económicos y productivos a nivel mundial. Los datos son aquellos elementos que permiten identificar el comportamiento de los fenómenos y las problemáticas que se manifiestan en la realidad. Sin embargo, existen retos que deben enfrentarse para gestionar dichos datos y someterlos a procesos que permitan una mejor y mayor comprensión de ellos. En este sentido, el análisis semántico de los datos es un método que, apoyado de técnicas de la inteligencia artificial y de herramientas digitales semánticas, tiene el propósito de identificar el significado de los datos mediante el procesamiento y el uso de vocabularios semánticos

Food as Voice

We often interpret “voice” as a means of communication. By extension, we can also consider food and drink as possessing their own voice, as they express our deeply held beliefs about our identities. Having the ability to speak is about having power, and the voices of food and beverages are particularly notable for their capacity to unveil the complexities of race, class, gender, and various other social categories that shape human experience. Alcohol as an intoxicant is particularly rich with social significance, as evidenced by the historical necessity to regulate its consumption across societies. Food scholar Diana Pittet discusses the concept of “beverage voice,” stating, “Wherever there’s drinking, there’s an institution—governmental, religious, cultural, social— that dictates who gets to drink what, where, and when. Additionally, wherever there’s a power dynamic, there are voices that are disproportionately loud, others that are expressed subversively, and some that remain silenced.” Oaxacan mezcal, the distilled spirit made from agave that has experienced a surge in popularity in recent years also embodies a powerful voice, at times elevating itself as the voice of Mexico. By engaging with it, we can gain insight into the shifting attitudes and socioeconomic divides prevalent in Mexico’s history and those emerging within the contemporary global market