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The purpose of this paper is to examine, from the concept of social representations, the strategies of the municipal government of Culiacán in Mexico, in order to analyze the high index of insecurity at the beginning of 1994, where the authorities sought to diminish the freedoms of young people by trying to restrict their schedules on public roads, prohibit the use of miniskirts and necklines in girls and long hair in men. For the methodology, literature for the conceptual framework and for the background information was consulted, as well as newspapers that, at the time, provided testimonies of the problematic in the public sphere. The actions of young people forced the authorities to reverse the tactics implemented to overcome insecurity [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to analyze the effect of income inequality on economic growth by state in Mexico. For this, a brief literature review is made, a descriptive analysis of the variables used is performed and an econometric model of panel data is applied. Variables such as the Gross Domestic Product per capita, school enrollment, gross fixed capital formation and the Gini coefficient by federal entity are used. The results of the model indicate that the increase in inequality generates a negative impact on economic growth. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aim is to make a comparison between two nomadic markets of the metropolitan area of Toluca, México. It shows the origin of each one of the products that are exchanged in these markets and the forms of articulation of urban and country or indigenous economies, contrasting them with global markets. This work recognizes the importance of street markets in the supply and demand economical cycle, which tendency, is to consider only supermarkets and elite markets into the economical competition rates of a city. Street markets are commonly left behind, but for societies like Toluca, they represent a common place of recognition and gathering processes. Tianguis (as in the pre-Hispanic word) from Toluca and Ixtlahuaca are been analyzed in this article. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper shows different levels of latin used by José León Sanchez in his novel Tenochtitlan. This language is one of the ways in order to control México. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper combines three issues which try to legitimize the Porfirio Diaz Regime, in Mexico, between 1876-1910. The main idea in this research is that during the second half of the XIX century, we obtained the historic synthesis. This synthesis harmonizes many Mexican pasts, and it translates the neoclassic-architecture style into the artistic tendency which is used to identify the regime. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]