President Felipe Calderón's First 100 Days in Office
April 13, 2007
This conference is designed to bring together scholars, political analysts, and politicians from Mexico and the U.S. to analyze the change of administration in Mexico in 2006, and to make an initial assessment of what the first "semester" of President Calderon's government tells us about the current and likely future directions in two key arenas of policy making and political change: (1) political reform and (2) the strategy to improve public security. These two arenas, along with employment creation and poverty alleviation, form the central policy platforms of the new administration. The conference is open to the public and will offer a capstone to two graduate and undergraduate courses that examine Mexico's democratic transition and emerging political culture. It will be Webcast live or streamed after the event.
The conference is sponsored by the Mexican Center Advisory Council, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies, Office of the Vice Provost and Dean of Graduate Studies, Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law, LBJ School of Public Affairs, and the C. B. Smith Sr. Centennial Chairs (#2) in U.S.-Mexico Relations.
Videos
- The Role of TRIFE in Mexico's Democratic Consolidation, Manuel Gonzalez Oropeza, Minister of the Tribunal Federal Electoral del Poder Judicial de la Nación (TRIFE)
- Keynote Address: An Overview of the Transition and the First 100 Days, Luis Rubio, Director of CIDAC, Mexico
- Panel: The Rule of Law and Public Security: First Steps
- Panel: Whither Political Reform in Mexico? The Imperatives and Pragmatics Arising from July 2