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With the goal of fully guaranteeing the constitutional right to health protection, Mexico City's leftist administration (2000-2006) undertook a reform to provide health services to people without insurance. The reform had four components: free medicine and health services; the introduction of a new service model (MAS); the strengthening, expansion, and improvement of services, and legislation to ensure that the city government become guarantor of this constitutional right. The reform resulted in 95% of eligible families being enrolled in free care; expansion of health care infrastructure with the construction of five new health care centers and a 1/3 increase in the number of public hospital beds in impoverished and disadvantaged areas; increased access to and use of health services particularly by the poor and for expensive interventions; and the legal guarantee of the continuity of this policy. The implementation of this new policy was made possible through an 80% budget increase, improvements in efficiency, and a successful fight against corruption. The health impact of the reform was seen in decline of mortality rates in all age groups between 1997 and 2005 (22% for child mortality, 11% for economically active age groups, and 7.9% for retired age groups) and by a 16% decline in AIDS related mortality between 2000 and 2005. This reform contrasts with the health care reform promoted by the right wing Federal government in the rest of the country; the latter was based on voluntary health insurance, cost-sharing by families, access to a limited package of services, and gradual enrollment of the population

Walking the city reveals the intimate urban tissues that keep megalopolises alive and functioning.

Stadtbewohner sind aktiv an der Gestaltung ihrer urbanen Umwelt beteiligt, aber wie organisieren und sichern sie diese Aktivitäten und deren Materialisierung in städtischen Formen? Wie prägen sie die "Stadt-im-Werden", die mit ihnen und auf ihren Schultern täglich neu entsteht? "City Making" reflektiert unser Verständnis von Stadt aus der Perspektive körperlichen Handelns und der "cityness", die es hervorbringt. Das Buch dringt in das Leben an der Peripherie von Mexico-City ein und beschreibt die körperliche Arbeit, mit der "Raumpraktiker" dort Häuser bauen, Arbeitsplätze schaffen und sich selbst als Infrastruktur einbringen. So werden die folgenreichen Verbindungen, die sie knüpfen, zum stadtgenerierenden Faktor – mit weitreichenden Konsequenzen für die Art und Weise,wie wir unsere Städte zukünftig denken und planen wollen.

1. Introduction -- 2. Theorizing the Urban Underground in Latin America -- 3. Subsoil Politics: Rewriting Resistance -- 4. Underground Forces: Being in and of the Earth -- 5. Excavating Time: Literary Archeologies of the Present -- 6. Writing from Below: The Aesthetic Abyss -- 7. Conclusion.

In this article, I examine the role that Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova played in Mexico's attempts to produce an embodied mestizo modernity that resonated with efforts to construct a post-revolutionary modern nation. After the revolution of 1910, cultural modernization consisted in the integration of Mexico's histories of indigenous civilizations and European influences in the production of expressive cultures intended to be local in character but universal in their appeal. I argue that Pavlova's performances from her Europeanized ballet repertoire as well as her balleticized rendition of Mexican folk dances helped to create a social space in which Mexican elites could reaffirm their affinity with international cosmopolitan classes while also attempting to retain a sense of Mexican distinctiveness. I contextualize my analysis by attending to racial and class formations implicated in the production of Mexico as a modern nation within the context of colonialist legacies informing notions of Western cultural modernity.