ANNUAL REPORT 2010MEXICO INSTITUTE MEXICO INSTITUTE ANNUAL REPORT / 1 / 2010 / 2 / MISSION STATEMENT CONTENTS The Wilson Message From the Co-Chairs / 2 Highlights from 2010 / 3 Center’s List of Donors and Board / 4 Mexico Institute Leadership / 7 seeks to improve Understanding Mexico Today / 9 Improving U.S. - Mexico Relations / 10 understanding, communication, Publications and Public Dialogue / 12 and cooperation between Economic Integration / 12 Security Cooperation / 13 Mexico and the United Migration / 13 States by promoting original Border Management / 14 Renewable Energy / 15 research, encouraging public Congressional Initiative / 16 discussion, and proposing Scholars Program / 17 policy options for enhancing Woodrow Wilson Awards / 18 the bilateral relationship. Events / 21 Publications / 26 MEXICO INSTITUTE ANNUAL REPORT / 3 / 2010 Message From the Co-Chairs JOSÉ ANTONIO FERNÁNDEZ CARBAJAL AND ROGER W. WALLACE We are pleased to chair the Advisory Board of the Woodrow Wilson Center’s Mexico Institute, a binational body of business lead- ers, scholars, and public figures from Mexico and the United States. The board meets regularly to assess the key challenges in this intense and interdependent relationship between our two countries and to set an agenda of activities that we hope can move this relationship forward. 1 Since its start in 2003, the Mexico Institute has emerged as a leading forum for discus- sion among opinion leaders in the United States and Mexico and as a crucial resource for creative policy options to improve the relationship. This year –2010– was our most active year to date, as we produced two major reports on U.S. Mexico relations and organized a series of high-level forums targeted at moving bilateral understanding forward. We invite you to join us in this effort to improve understanding and cooperation 2 between our two countries. / 4 / Highlights From 2010 ANDREW SELEE, DIRECTOR, MEXICO INSTITUTE Andrew Selee This year, 2010, proved to be our most active on developments in Mexico through its news ever. Given the heightened interest in Mexico portal and its speaker series, “Dialogues with in the United States and the growing complex- Mexico”, which showcased Finance Secretary ity of policy efforts between the two countries, Ernesto Cordero, State of Mexico Governor the Wilson Center’s Mexico Institute played a Enrique Peña Nieto, PRD Congressional crucial role, in providing analysis and new ideas Coordinator Alejandro Encinas, and journalist for the bilateral agenda. Carmen Aristegui. The Institute also published Mexico’s Democratic Challenges, a comprehen- We undertook a major effort to analyze progress sive analysis of Mexico’s political system, and in security cooperation between the two an updated edition of More Than Neighbors, an countries, given the growing importance of overview of Mexico and U.S.-Mexico relations. joint efforts to address organized crime. These efforts include the publication of twelve original The Mexico Institute’s staff and scholars met working papers on the aspects of bilateral frequently with administration officials, Members cooperations from intelligence sharing and law of Congress and their staff, and journalists dur- enforcement collaboration, to coordination on ing the year. They were also featured in stories money laundering, arms trafficking, and the on the CBS Evening News, NBC Nightly News, demand for narcotics, as well as strengthen PBS Newshour, Fox’s America’s Newsroom, police, courts, and freedom of the press. These NPR’s Morning Edition, The Diane Riehm Show, studies, which explore both strategic opportuni- and To the Point, and in The Washington Post, ties and potential pitfalls, were assembled into a The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, single publication titled Shared Responsibility: USA Today, The Dallas Morning News, The U. S.-Mexico Policy options for Confronting Houston Chronicle, the Los Angeles Times, The Organized Crime. The document was discussed Atlantic, Newsweek, and Time, among others. in several public meetings and private briefings for the U.S. Congress and administration. We are particularly grateful to our Board, led by José Antonio Fernández and Roger Wallace, The Institute also continued its work on border whose members provided the strategic guid- cooperation, bringing federal and local stake- ance for these endeavors. We are also grateful holders together to look at border infrastructure for all those who supported these efforts development and the potential for renewable through their funding, including corporations, energy in the border region. In addition, the foundations, and government agencies. A full list Institute launched the final report of its major is below and on the back of this publication. study on the role of Mexican and Latin American immigrants in U. S. civic and political life, and As both countries enter national elections in then began a new initiative on key issues in 2012, it will be ever more critical to build under- U.S.-Mexico migration. standing and ensure that long-term policy coop- eration predominates over short-term political gain Finally, the Institute continued its trademark in solving problems that affect both nations and work on ensuring timely information and analysis in building on the opportunities for well-being that our increasing interdependence allows. MEXICO INSTITUTE ANNUAL REPORT / 5 / 2010 2010 List of Donors and Board CORPORATE MEMBERS GRANT SUPPORT Allen & Company John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Banamex William and Flora Hewlett Foundation CEMEX Smith Richardson Foundation Cleary Gottlieb Steen and Hamilton LLP Council of State Governments – West / ExxonMobil Ventures Mexico Ltd. USAID-Mexico Mission GRUMA S.A.B. de C.V. Embassy of Mexico in the United States / Grupo ALFA Secretariat of Foreign Relations Grupo BAL Grupo FEMSA CO-CHAIRS Grupo LALA Mr. José Antonio Fernández Carbajal, Hunt Consolidated, Inc. Chairman and CEO, FEMSA J.P. Morgan Mr. Roger W. Wallace, Vice President, Kraft Foods Pioneer Natural Resources Motorola, Inc. Mr. Robert Lovelace Members Pioneer Natural Resources Company Dr. Sergio Aguayo, Professor, El Colegio The Coca-Cola Company de México ViaNovo, L.P. Mr. Herb Allen, President, Allen and Western Union Financial Services, Inc. Company, LLC Ms. Anne Alonzo, Vice President for Global Public Policy, Kraft Foods Mr. Javier Arrigunaga, CEO, Grupo Financiero BANAMEX Mr. Alberto Baillères González, Chairman, Grupo BAL and ITAM 1 2 (left to right) 1. Jim Kolbe, Roderic Camp, Andrew Selee, and Peter Ward; 2. José Antonio Fernández, Rossana Fuentes Berain, Jaime El Koury, Luis Téllez, and Anne Alonzo / 6 / 3 4 (left to right) 3. Monica Verea, Larry Harrington, David Ayon, Luis Rubio; 4. Carlos Pascual Mr. Jaime Buitrago, President, ExxonMobil Mr. Hunter Hunt, Senior Vice President, Hunt Ventures-Mexico Ltd. Oil Company Mr. Malin Burnham, Vice Chairman, Mr. Guillermo Jasson, President, CrossFields Cushman & Wakefield Capital Dr. Enrique Cabrero Mendoza, General Amb. James Jones, Chairman, Manatt Jones Director, CIDE Global Strategies Dr. Roderic Ai Camp, Professor of the Pacific Mr. Alejandro Junco, President and Rim, Claremont McKenna College Publisher, Reforma and El Norte Ms. Magdalena Carral, Partner, Carral, Dr. Susan Kaufman Purcell, Director, Center Sierra y Asociados S.C. for Hemispheric Policy, University of Miami Mr. Eduardo Cepeda, Managing Director, J.P. Hon. Jim Kolbe, Advisor, McLarty Associates Morgan-Mexico Dr. Enrique Krauze, President and Director, Dr. Luis de la Calle, Founding Partner and Letras Libres Managing Director, De la Calle, Madrazo, & Mr. Robert Lovelace, Chairman, Capital Mancera Research Company Mr. Brian Dyson, President, Chatham Dr. Lorenzo Meyer, Professor, El Colegio de International México Ms. Maria Echaveste, Co-founder, Nueva Dr. Diana Negroponte, Non-Resident Senior Vista Group Fellow, Brookings Institution Mr. Jaime El Koury, Partner, Cleary Gottlieb Mr. Fred Niehaus, Senior Vice President, Steen & Hamilton, New York, NY Western Union Dr. Rafael Fernández de Castro, Amb. Carlos Pascual, U.S. Ambassador to Presidential Advisor, International Affairs and Mexico Competitiveness and Professor, ITAM Amb. Jesús Reyes Heroles, former Mexican Dr. Rossana Fuentes-Berain, Editorial Vice Ambassador to the United States President, Grupo Editorial Expasión Mr. José Octavio Reyes Lagunes, President, Mr. Donald E. García, President, Pinnacle Latin America Group, Coca-Cola Financial Group Mr. Raúl Rodríguez, Board Chair, North Mr. Armando Garza Sada, Chairman and American Center for Transborder Studies, CEO, Grupo Industrial ALFA Arizona State University Dr. Bernardo González-Aréchiga, Director, Amb. Andrés Rozental, President, Rozental School of Public Administration, Monterrey Tec & Asociados, Non-Resident Senior Fellow, Hon. Lawrence Harrington, Chief Deputy Brookings Institution Attorney General, State of Tennessee Dr. Luis Rubio, President, CIDAC Mr. Carlos Heredia, Researcher, CIDE Amb. Arturo Sarukhan, Mexican Ambassador to the United States MEXICO INSTITUTE ANNUAL REPORT / 7 / 2010 1 2 1. Bill Richardson; 2. Roger Wallace, Julián Ventura, John Feeley, Magdalena Carral, and Raúl Rodríguez Dr. Peter H. Smith, Simón Bolívar Professor, Mr. Javier Treviño, Secretary of University of California, San Diego Government, State of Nuevo León Mr. Fernando Solís-Cámara J.C., Corporate Mr. Eduardo Tricio, Chairman of the Director of Public Affairs and Communication, Board, Grupo Lala Gruma Prof. Mónica Verea, Researcher,