Mexico and the World
Vol. 4, No 2 (Spring 1999)
http://www.profmex.org/mexicoandtheworld/volume4/2spring99/programa.html

VISIONES COMPARTIDAS 1er Foro PROFMEX-Guanajuato  de Ideas Innovadoras de mexicanos en el Extranjero Guanajuato, México, abril 14-17, 1999

Shared Visions
 

I PROFMEX-Guanajuato Forum on

New Ideas for Mexico's Development.
 

Guanajuato, Mexico, April 14-17, 1999
 

Government of the State of Guanajuato
 
 

PROFMEX--Worldwide Network for Mexico Policy Research, UCLA
 
 

UCLA Program on Mexico
 
 

Center for U.S.-Mexico Studies, University of Texas at Dallas
 
 

Universidad de Guanajuato
 
 

Centro Internacional "Lucas Alamán" para el Crecimiento Económico, A.C.

Wednesday, April 14, 1999

Arrival of Participants

10:00 - 9 PM PROFMEX Registration at Conference Hotel: Misión Guanajuato

Thursday, April 15,1999

8:00 - 9:00 A.M. Registration of Forum Participants and Ticket Holders: Lobby of Teatro Juárez

9:00 - 9:30 A.M. Inauguration (Teatro Juárez)

Presidium:

Governor of Guanajuato

Vicente Fox

President of PROFMEX and Chair of UCLA Program on Mexico

James W. Wilkie

U.S. Ambassador to Mexico

Jeffrey Davidow

Mayor of Guanajuato

Luis Felipe Luna Obregón

President, Universidad de Guanajuato

Sylvia Alvarez Bruneliere

President of CILACE

Fausto Alzati

Director, CUSMA, University of Texas at Dallas

Juan Hernández

Professor of Political Economy, University of Guanajuato

John Barchfield

Presentation: Conference General Coordinator Alfonso Galindo

INAUGURAL PROGRAM:

Welcome: Luis Felipe Luna Obregón , Mayor of Guanajuato

Message: Jeffrey Davidow, U.S. Ambassador to Mexico

Message: James W. Wilkie, President of PROFMEX

Formal Opening: Vicente Fox, Governor of Guanajuato

(Thursday, April 15, Continued)

9:30 - 10:15 A.M. Inaugural Address

Vicente Fox

Governor of Guanajuato

10:15 - 11:45 A.M. Plenary Session I: Institutional Reform for Economic Growth

President: Fausto Alzati, President of CILACE

Eduardo Sojo Garza-Aldape

Government of the State of Guanajuato

Roberto Salinas León

T.V. Azteca

Gerardo Jacobs

Universidad Iberoamericana

Roberto Blum

Centro de Investigación para el Desarrollo, A. C. (CIDAC)

Jorge Chávez Presa

Secretaría de Energía

Manuel Ayau

Universidad Francisco MarroquĚn de Guatemala

12:00 - 1:30 P.M. Plenary Session II: Social Policy

President: James W. Wilkie, President of PROFMEX

Romeo Flores Caballero

Programa Paisano

Fernando Torres Gil

UCLA

Paul Ganster

San Diego State University

Chandler Stolp

University of Texas, Austin.

José Angel Canela-Cacho

University California, Berkeley

David Dolan

PROFMEX

Rafael de la Torre

Universidad Iberoamericana

(Thursday, April 15, Continued)

1:30 - 2:00 P.M. Transfer to Convention Center

2:00 - 4:30 P.M. Lunch and Conference

Speaker:

Carlos Monsivais

Writer, Journalist, Chonicler, Critic, Witness to Historical Events

and Analyst of Mexican Culture and Politics

Introduced by David R. Maciel

California State University, Dominguez Hills

5:00 - 7:00 P.M. Simultaneous Working Sessions: "Alternative Ideas for Mexico"

Listed with Working Session Coordinators:

1.- Telecommunications

Eduardo Barrera, University of Texas at El Paso

Federico González Luna, Secretaría de Comunicaciones

Lisa Pozzi, UCLA

Gilberto Meilán, Cubacel (Havana) and

Centro de Investigación en Matemáticas (CIMAT-Guanajuato)

2.- Migration

José Camacho, Consorcio de Padres Migrantes

Raymond Rocco, UCLA

Juan Benítez, Long Beach State University

3.- U.S.-Mexican Relations

María Rosa García, CIDE

John Hart, University of Houston

Carlos Contreras, Grossmont College

4.- Industry and Business

Abelardo Antonio Cabral, Cabral & Associates

Laura Iturbide, Universidad Anáhuac

Juan Mansilla, University of Southern California

Arturo Avecia Solano, German Society for Quality Control

5.- Federalism

Alberto Díaz-Cayeros, CIDAC and UCLA

Humberto Lomelí, Universidad Autónoma de Nayarit

Octavio Pescador, UCLA

6.- Free Trade

Aldo Flores, Claremont Graduate University

Eunice Meyer, Universidad Anáhuac

(Thursday, April 15, Continued)

7.- Indian Affairs

Brenda Ramírez, PROFMEX

Karen Frid, UCLA

Garrick J. Wilkie, UCLA

8.- Border

Juan Gómez-Quinőnes, UCLA

Patricia Mungaray, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California

Eric Schantz, UCLA

Luzma Brayton, Claremont Graduate University

9.- U.S. Social Security Rights of Mexicans

Bernardino A. González, U.S. Embassy, Mexico City

Raúl Lomelí, UCLA

James Cypher, UCLA

10.- Ecology and Science

Susana Hecht, UCLA

Carlos Labrada, MIT

Sergio Sanudo, State University of New York at Stonybrook

11.- Culture

Guillermo Hernández, UCLA

David Maciel, Fulbright Fellow

Stuart Manashil, UCLA

Rafael Rodríguez Castańeda, PROFMEX

Irene Vásquez, UCLA

12.- Regions

Miguel Sandoval Lara, PROFMEX

Raúl Hinojosa-Ojeda, UCLA

Patricia López Velasco, Universidad de Guadalajara

13.- NGOs

Olga M. Lazin, PROFMEX Europe and UCLA

Alexandru Lazin, American-Romanian Foundation

Beatriz Magaloni, ITAM and Stanford

14.- Informal Sector

Judy Carney, UCLA

John Cross, National Research and Development Institutes, Inc.

14.- Education

Raquel Ahuja,

Aída Mostkoff, Santa Monica College

15.- Globalization and Domestic Change

Alfonso Galindo, PROFMEX and CILACE

Maricarmen Santana, UCLA

Agustín Avecia, PROFMEX

(Thursday, April 15, Continued)

7:00 - 7:15 P.M. Transfer to Conference Hotel Misión Guanajuato

8:00 P.M. Gala Dinner in Jardín de la Reina, offered by Governor Vicente Fox

Award Ceremony:

"1st PROFMEX International Prize for Global Policy"

Presented By

Governor of Guanajuato Vicente Fox

PROFMEX President James W. Wilkie

To

Roberto González Barrera

President of Grupo MASECA

For

"Development of the World Revolution

in Enriched and Fortified Staple Food"

Award Ceremony:

First International Prize:

"Innovative Idea for Mexico's Development in the 21st Century,"

Presented to a Mexican Student Living Outside of Mexico

and

Honorable Mention Awards by Topic:

"Model New Ideas" to Develop Mexico

Presented by:

Governor Vicente Fox

Master of Ceremonies:

Juan Hernández, University of Texas at Dallas

Friday April 16, 1999

Convention Center

9:00 - 10:30 A.M. Plenary Session III: Education

President: Juan Carlos Romero Hicks,

Former President, Universidad de Guanajuato

Jesús Arroyo

Director, Instituto de Estudios Económicos y Regionales (INESER)

Universidad de Guadalajara

Adolfo Bermeo

UCLA Director of Academic Advancement Program

Francisco Javier Castellón Fonseca

President, Universidad Autónoma de Nayarit

Oscar González Cuevas

Former President, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-

Azcapotzalco

Edmundo Jacobo

Academic Secretary, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana

Alejandro Mungaray Lagarda

UCLA and Former Academic Secretary, Asociación Mexicana de Universidades e Instituciones de Educación Superior

Laura Randall

City University of New York

Dolores Sánchez Soler

Academic Secretary, Asociación Mexicana de Universidades e Instituciones de Edcación Superior

(Friday, April 16, Continued)

10:30 - 12:00 P.M. Plenary Session IV: Mexico and Globalization

Presidents: Ron Hellman, CUNY

José Luis Romero Hicks, State of Guanajuato

Sidney Weintraub

Center for Strategic and International Studies

Eugenio O. Valenciano

Universidad de Belgrano, Buenos Aires

Samuel Schmidt

Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez

Luis Rubio

Centro de Investigación para el Desarrollo, A.C. (CIDAC)

Ramón Lecuona

Universidad Anáhuac

Miguel Rivera Ríos

UNAM y UCLA

José Z. García

New Mexico State University

12:00 - 1:30 P.M. Plenary Session V: Innovative Ideas at the State Level:

Guanajuato Experiences

President: Eduardo Sojo Garza-Aldape,

General Coordinator of Economic Planning, State of Guanajuato

1. Banca Social: Micro-Credit and Credit Unions

Speaker: Norberto Roque,

Sistema de Financiamento para el Desarrollo

Comment: Ricardo Skertchly Molina,

Universidad Anáhuac del Sur

Adriana Maturana, Desjardins de Qučbec

2. Permanent Education

Speakers: Basilio Cruz, Instituto de Educación Permanent

J. Carmen Muńoz,

Centro Interuniversitario del Conocimiento

3. Globalization and Industry for the Century XXI

Speakers: Arturo Lara, State Council on Science & Technology

Ricardo Alaniz, Guanajuato Foreign Trade Office

Comment: Víctor Pérez Ahuja, Centro de Investigación en Matemáticas (CIMAT-Guanajuato)

1:30 - 4 P.M. Lunch and Conference

Plenary Session VI: MASECA and the Revolution in Nutritious Food for the Popular Sectors: The Case of Guanajuato

President: José Antonio Fernández Ortiz,

PROFMEX

Aldolfo Chávez, Director of Applied Nutrition,

Instituto Nacional de Nutrición

Alfonso Cebreros, President,

National Chamber of Corn Industries

Invited Speaker,

UNICEF

SPECIAL FILM RECOGNITION

Presented by David R. Maciel, Fulbright Fellow

and Eduardo Sastré de Riva, BANORTE

To

Garrick J. Wilkie

UCLA Film Program

Production and Direction of

"Last of the Lacandon Mayans: Chan K'in Viejo"

SPECIAL PUBLIC SERVICE RECOGNITIONS

Presented by

Juan Hernández

---

To

Juan Carlos Romero-Hicks

Former President of the University of Guanajuato

From

University of Texas at Dallas

---

To

Steve Salazar

Dallas City Council

From

Governor of Guanajuato

and

International Trade Commission of the State of Guanajuato

4:00 - 4:15P.M. Coffee Recess

4:15 - 6:00 P.M. Plenary VII: Electricity Privatization in Mexico?

Presidents: George Baker, Mexico Energy Intelligence

Rafael Friedmann, University of California, Berkeley

6:00 - 8:00 P.M. KEYNOTE EVENT:

INNOVATIVE IDEAS FOR MEXICO IN CENTURY XXI

President: James W. Wilkie

Speakers: Hernando de Soto

Institute for Democracy and Freedom, Lima

Porfirio Muńoz Ledo

PRD

Fausto Alzati

CILACE

Luis Felipe Bravo Mena

PAN

8:00 - 8:15 P.M. Forum Conclusions:

Alfonso Galindo, Vice President of CILACE and

Secretary General of PROFMEX <

Raúl Lomelí Payán, PROFMEX Director of Worldwide Affairs

8:15 Closing Remarks:

Juan Hernández, PROFMEX - UT Dallas and State of Guanajuato

James Wilkie, President of PROFMEX.

Saturday, April 17, 1999

9 - 10 A.M. PROFMEX Meeting of the Board of Directors (Breakfast)

Alan S. Alexandroff

University of Toronto

Jesús Arroyo Alejandre

Universidad de Guadalajara

Roderic A. Camp

Claremont McKenna College

Enrique Cárdenas

Univ. de las Americas, Puebla

Donald V. Coes

University of New Mexico

Alfonso Galindo

CILACE

Paul Ganster

San Diego State University

José Z. García

New Mexico State University

Mónica de la Garza

Univ. Autónoma Metropolitana-A

Arturo Grunstein

CIDE

Diódoro Guerra Rodríguez

Instituto Politécnico Nacional

Ronald G. Hellman

City University of New York

María Herrera-Sobek

University of California, Santa Barbara

Edmundo Jacobo Molina

Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana

Boris Koval

Moscow Institute

Olga M. Lazin

UCLA

Francisco Marmolejo

CONAHEC--NAFTA Universities

Oscar J. Martínez

University of Arizona

Kevin J. Middlebrook

UCSD U.S-Mexican Studies Center

Aída Mostkoff

Santa Monica College

Alejandro Mungaray

Universidad de Baja California

Enrique C. Ochoa

Cal State Univ., Los Angeles

Sylvia Ortega Salazar

UAM

Benjamín Robles Montoya

CIDEM--State of Michoacán

María Dolores Sánchez Soler

ANUIES

Samuel Schmidt

University of Texas-El Paso

Susan Schroeder

Tulane University

(Saturday, April 17, Continued)

(PROFMEX Board of Directors, Continued)

Andrés Serbín Bartosch

Instituto Venezolano, Caracas

Soichi Shinohara

Doshisha University, Kyoto

Jiang Shixue

Beijing Research Institute

Charles Theisen

Young Presidents' Organization

Clint E. Smith

Stanford University

Chandler Stolp

University of Texas-Austin

Mónica Verea Campos

Univ. Nacional Autónoma de México

James W. Wilkie

UCLA

10 A.M Book Announcement by Jesús Arroyo Alejandre (University of Guadalajara)

James W. Wilkie and Clint E. Smith, eds.

Integrating Cities and Regions:

North America Faces Globalization

(University of Guadalajara, UCLA Program on Mexico, CILACE, 1998)

Book Presentation by Alejandro Mungaray (UCLA)

Aldo Flores

Proteccionismo Versus Libro Comercio

(Fondo de Cultura Económca, 1999)

10:00 A.M. to 1:00 P.M. Tours hosted by the State of Guanajuato:

ˇ Santa Fé de Guanajuato Poverty Alleviation Program

ˇ Local Industrial Plants.

ˇ Universities and Research Centers

ˇ City of Guanajuato

ˇ Guided Tours

WORLDWIDE OFFICES

Chair of International Advisory Board: Fausto Alzati

[email protected]

BEIJING: Sengen Zhang

[email protected]

BERLIN: James Scott

[email protected]

BOMBAY: Damodar R. Sardesai

[email protected]

BRASILIA: Aspásia Camargo

[email protected]

BUENOS AIRES: Eugenio Valenciano

TEL (54-1) 374-9517, FAX 373-8573

CARACAS: Andrés Serbín

[email protected]

DALLAS: Juan Hernández

[email protected]

GUADALAJARA: Jesús Arroyo A.

[email protected]

HAVANA: Alberto Prieto Rozos

TEL/FAX (53-7) 333-479

KIEL: Ruediger Soltwedel

[email protected]

KYOTO: Soichi Shinohara

[email protected]

LA PAZ, BOLIVIA: Antonio Cisneros

TEL (591-2) 794-214, FAX 378-016

LONDON: Víctor Bulmer-Thomas

TEL (44-171) 387-5671, FAX 388-5024

MADRID: Héctor Subirats

[email protected]

MOSCOW: Boris Koval

[email protected]

OTTAWA: Edgar J. Dosman

TEL (1-613) 236-3535, FAX 789-9067

PARIS: Gérard Chaliand

TEL (33-1) 4331-0912, FAX 4325-6954

SIGHET, ROMANIA: Alexandru Lazin

[email protected]

SINGAPORE: Carl Grundy-Warr

[email protected]

TURIN: Marcello Carmagnani

[email protected]

WASHINGTON, D.C.: Margaret Carroll

[email protected]

ACCOUNTING: Ward Nyhus, Jr., CPA

TEL (1-310) 207-1186, FAX 207-0065

CULTURE: David R. Maciel

[email protected]

CYBER-LIBRARY: Dora Loh

[email protected]

GLOBALIZATION STUDIES: Olga M. Lazin

[email protected]

GLOBAL POLICY: Alan S. Alexandroff

[email protected]

MULTI-LINGUAL EDUC: Gustavo Vieyra

Tel (1-323) 462-4077

POLICY LINKAGES: Rafael Fernández

[email protected]

(PROFMEX Worldwide Offices, Continued)

MIGRATION LAW: George Feldman

TEL (1-626) 578-7188, FAX 578-1293

RESEARCH: George Baker

[email protected]

STATEGIC POLICY: Ronald G. Hellman

[email protected]

WEB JOURNAL: Mexico & the World www.netside.net/mexworld

EDITORIAL BOARD:

Editors: James W. Wilkie (1996--), Jesús Arroyo Alejandre (1998--), Sergio de la Peńa

Managing Editors: Arturo Grunstein (1996--), Olga M. Lazin (1997--), David E. Lorey (1996-1997)

Webmaster: Marcus Dantus (1990-1996), Ted Lungu (1997--)

Addresses:

EDITOR: [email protected]

CO-EDITOR: [email protected]

MANAGING EDITOR: [email protected]

CO-MANAGING EDITOR: [email protected]

BOOK REVIEW EDITOR: [email protected]

WEBMASTER: [email protected]

EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD

Arturo Grunstein, Chair

(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas)

Alan Alexandroff

(University of Toronto)

Fausto Alzati

(Centro Internacional "Lucas Alamán" para el Crecimiento Económico)

Jesús Arroyo Alejandre

(Universidad de Guadalajara)

M. Delal Baer

(Center for International & Strategic Studies, Washington, D.C.)

Carlos Bazdresch Parada

(CONACYT-Mexico)

Carlos Elizondo Mayer-Serra

(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas)

Paul Ganster

(San Diego State University)

Mónica de la Garza

(Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Azcapotzalco)

Oscar González Cuevas

(Universidad Autónma Metropolitana-Azcapotzalco)

(Editorial Advisory Board, Continued)

Ronald G. Hellman

(City University of New York)

Blanca Heredia

(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas)

María Herrera-Sobek

(University of California, Santa Barbara)

Juan Moreno Pérez

(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas)

Alejandro Mungaray Lagarda

(Universidad Autónoma de Baja California)

Andrés Serbín

(Instituto Venezolano, Caracas)

John Scott

(Berlin Institute)

Soichi Shinohara

(Doshisha University, Kyoto)

Susan Schroeder

(Loyola University of Chicago)

Carlos Alberto Torres

(UCLA and FLACSO-Buenos Aires)

Mónica Verea Campos

(Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)

Sergio Zermeńo

(Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)

Sengen Zhang

(Institute of Latin American Studies, Beijing)