Latin America (Audio)

Deborah Riner, the chief economist at the American Chamber of Commerce in Mexico wraps up the Mexico Moving Forward 2014 with an assessment of how the North American Free Trade Agreement has impacted the economies on both sides of the border. Series: "Mexico Moving Forward" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 28130]

UC San Diego Professor Susan Shirk and Gordon Hanson join CIDE’s Carlos Elizondo and Arturo Sarukhan, the former Mexican Ambassador to the United States, for a discussion on how Mexico can strengthen its economic ties with Asia in this final panel of the Mexico Moving Forward 2014 symposium. Series: "Mexico Moving Forward" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 28129]

After welcoming remarks from Consuls General Andrew Erickson and Remedios Gomez Arnau, Mexican analysts and scholars evaluate initiatives on the reform agenda of Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto. Speakers include IMCO CEO Juan Pardinas, Clare Seelke of the Congressional Research Service, Duncan Wood of the Wilson Center ,Edna Jaime of Mexico Evalua and David Shirk of the University of San Diego. Series: "Mexico Moving Forward" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 28128]

The UC San Diego Library announces the purchase of the Farmworker Movement Documentation Project, an online archive containing thousands of documents related to the history of the United Farm Workers’ union and related events. A short video on the historic March to Sacramento in 1966 is shown followed by a discussion with two participants in the march: Roberto Bustos and LeRoy Chatfield, key advisors to Cesar Chávez. Series: "Library Channel" [Public Affairs] [Humanities] [Agriculture] [Show ID: 28138]

A flash mob opera performance by the Opera Ambulante in Tijuana surprises the panelists and audience in this second session of Mexico Moving Forward 2014. Tenor Manuel Paz Castillo is then joined by cinematographer Ignacio Duran, writer Monica Lavin, and artist Luis Felipe Ortega for a discussion on NAFTA’s impact on the arts moderated by Exequiel Ezcurra, director of the UC MEXUS Institute based at UC Riverside. Series: "Mexico Moving Forward" [Public Affairs] [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 28127]

After welcoming remarks from Mexican diplomat Antonio Ortiz-Mena, UC President Janet Napolitano, UC San Diego Chancellor Pradeep Khosla and Peter Cowhey, dean of the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies at UCSD, Mexican scholars and business leaders assess the impact of the North American Free Trade Agreement two decades after its passing. Join Peter H. Smith, Carlos Elizondo, Juan Gallardo and Kenneth Schwedel as they evaluate which economic sectors have gained the most from this groundbreaking trade deal. Series: "Mexico Moving Forward" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 28126]

Noted commentator and political science professor Denise Dresser offers a thorough critique of the PRI, Mexico’s ruling party in this dinner address opening the Mexico Moving Forward 2014 conference convened by the Center for US-Mexican Studies at UC San Diego’s School of International Relations and Pacific Studies. Series: "Mexico Moving Forward" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 25727]

The future of Mexico will be played out in its cities, where about 3/4 of the nation's 115 million inhabitants live. Many critical national policy concerns in Mexico are urban-- how to manage one of the world's largest mega-cities (Mexico City), along with the rapidly transforming and complex northern border cities. Lawrence A. Herzog, Professor of City Planning at San Diego State University and Visiting Professor at UC San Diego argues that three of the biggest challenges facing urban Mexico are globalization, environmental degradation, and the uncertain future of the urban periphery. Series: "Mexico: Twenty Years After NAFTA" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 27719]

Antonio Ortiz-Mena, the head of the Economics Affairs Section at the Embassy of Mexico in Washington DC, highlights the benefits of the North American Free Trade Agreement in his keynote address to the “Mexico Moving Forward 2014: 20 years of NAFTA and Beyond” conference hosted by the Center for US-Mexican Studies at UC San Diego. Series: "Mexico Moving Forward" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 28125]

Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto took office in December of 2012 promising a new approach to curb drug trafficking that would be both more effective and less violent than the strategy of his predecessor. The new enforcement plan seems to be working but is it sustainable? David Mares, director of the Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies at UC San Diego, argues that the answer is fundamental to Mexico’s future and of great interest to the United States. Mares is presented by the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute and the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies at UC San Diego. Series: "Mexico: Twenty Years After NAFTA" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 27717]