Thread: CFR Bypasses ENGLISH, reaches SPANISH Elites

Spanish-Language Edition of Foreign Affairs Magazine Launched in Mexico City


On December 1, the day Vicente Fox was inaugurated as Mexico’s new president, Foreign Affairs launched its new Spanish-language edition. Foreign Affairs en Espanol will be distributed throughout Latin America and Spain. It is the second foreign language version of Foreign Affairs -- a Japanese edition has been in print for a decade.

The first issue’s print run was 3,000 copies, which will increase to more than 5,000 with subsequent issues. The magazine will initially come out three times a year (January, May, and September), in contrast to the English version that is published bimonthly. In addition to translations of current and classic articles from Foreign Affairs, each issue will feature essays commissioned exclusively for Foreign Affairs en Español.

The editor of the new publication is Rafael Fernandez de Castro, head of International Relations at Mexico’s most prestigious private university, Instituto Technologico Autonomo de Mexico (ITAM), Foreign Affairs’ partner in the new venture. The managing editor is Rossana Fuentes-Berain, a well-known Mexican journalist. Leading research centers in Argentina, Chile, Spain, and elsewhere will collaborate with ITAM in building exposure for Foreign Affairs en Espanol in their respective countries.

The new publication has assembled a prestigious editorial advisory board chaired by Mexico’s former ambassador to Washington, Jorge Montano, a long-time friend of the Council. Also on the board are Council members Jorge Dominguez, Peter Hakim, and Michael Shifter, Council Senior Fellow Kenneth Maxwell, and Foreign Affairs editor James F. Hoge Jr., ex officio.

According to Foreign Affairs en Espanol Editor Fernandez, "The growing importance of Latin America in the world deserves a high quality forum in which Latin Americans can speak among themselves and to the rest of the world." Moreover, “Spanish has become the second language of diplomacy. Our magazine reflects this achievement."

Simultaneously, Foreign Affairs will publish the complete contents of each issue of Foreign Affairs en Espanol on a new Spanish-language website that will launch soon. The site will also feature Spanish translations of numerous classic Foreign Affairs articles, and access to a data base containing thousands of Foreign Affairs articles and book reviews in English (and in Spanish as available). The Spanish-language site, which will mirror the Foreign Affairs English-language site, will also offer background briefings on current topics of global interest.

Foreign Affairs publisher David Kellogg, who attended the ceremonies in Mexico City, observed, "With its unparalleled content and brand recognition, Foreign Affairs' Spanish-language website has an excellent opportunity to get in on the ground floor of the current explosive growth of internet usage in Latin America, especially among young, educated professionals.”

Headlining the inaugural issue are several original essays commissioned specifically for the new publication, including an article by Vicente Fox. Among the articles translated from the current English edition will be "Beyond Border Control," by Council Fellow Stephen E. Flynn. Also appearing in translation will be a classic article by former-U.S. Secretary of State Elihu Root, on “popular diplomacy,” that ran in the very first issue of Foreign Affairs, dated September 1922.


Source:

http://www.cfr.org/publication/5389/spa ... _city.html

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Free Trade and the Environment: Mexico, NAFTA, and Beyond. Kevin P. Gallagher, Stanford University Press

The Original Review of this English book...was published in Spanish

[at http://www.foreignaffairs-esp.org/20...nd-beyond.html

The Translation [now into English] (which they did not post at their site) is as follows:


The agreements of free commerce are the equivalent contemporary to the security alliances. Supposing that the American Congress ratifies next year (2006) the agreement between the United States and Central America, the free commerce will extend from Alaska to Panama, and the government of Bush negotiates additional pacts with Colombia, Peru and Ecuador as angular stones of an Area of Free Commerce of the total Américas.

In 23 stimulating tests, compiled in this valuable guide of reference of the Center and Inter-American Development Bank David Rockefeller of Latin American Studies of Harvard University, experienced analysts they explore the economic, social and legal ramifications of the free hemisférico commerce, counting in it the macroeconomic policies and the rates of change; the supervision of the competition and regulator; the productivity, the wages and the distribution of the entrance; the labor and environmental flows of foreign investment, and norms.

Unfortunately, in these competent tecnocráticos efforts an integrating vision of institutions does not exist genuinely that tie the freest markets with the democratic governability and the social fairness.

[in other words, we're sorry you have no rights left]

In the meantime, the study of Gallagher as much gives pabilo to defenders as to detractors of the Free Trade Agreement of North America (TLCAN) [NAFTA]. In a consistent conclusion with other findings of experts, Gallagher maintains that Mexico has not served as refuge for the contamination; a "race has not taken place either backwards".


The economic growth has continued degrading the atmosphere in Mexico, but the author does not manage to isolate nor therefore to blame of worthy way of credit to the international trade and the investment.

At the same time he discovers that the TLCAN [NAFTA] has not managed to stop the damage that the growth has caused to the air and the water in Mexico; the environmental institutions of the treaty have generated some good programs pilot, but the money and the power lack to make them truely effective.

Mexico, on the other hand, has created joint elaborating of environmental laws, but it political will nor the resources not to apply them. (Apparently by calculation, the government drastically increased the number of inspection of factories shortly before the ratification of the TLCAN, but he diminished them suddenly shortly after.)

Gallagher secunda to the collaborators of Integrating the Americas in pleading for approaches of cooperation as far as norms environmental (and labor), and calls to the international community to help to Mexico and other countries developing to construct the capacity to put vigor in the heat of its national laws.

http://www.foreignaffairs-esp.org/bu...afta&x=13&y=10


http://www.foreignaffairs-esp.org/20...americana.html


As the article notes, They passed NAFTA, but guess what ? Not enough Political power for the people to help themselves and their environment.

What is the solution ?

Less Sovereignty, "of course"

Articles in Spanish (from the CFR) can be found in the previous editions of the Journal at:

http://www.foreignaffairs-esp.org/anteriores/


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Spanish-Language Edition of Foreign Affairs Magazine Launched in Mexico City

That does present the obvious question: so what ?

So now the Council on Foreign Relations that already is giving your sovereignty away, that already is merging Canada, the USA and Mexico into one Nation (without the U.S. Constitution) - Now the CFR can pass on their recommendations, tactics, objectives and strategies in Spanish to the Wealthy Elites of Mexico who are working with Frist and the U.S. Congress ...to take more of your country away...

without you knowing what is taking place, or how it is being planned.




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