Analysis of the tendency of the homicide rates in Mexico from 2000 to 2010
Given the significant increase in homicidal violence in Mexico in recent years, the purpose was to analyze the levels, trends and the impact of homicide mortality between 2000 and 2010 at national and state level. Mortality statistics for homicide were used calculating standardized mortality rates and years of life lost (YLL) from 15 to 49 years. Between 2000 and 2007 there was a decline in the mortality rates at the national level (10.8 to 8.2 homicides respectively) and AVP (23.95%). But between 2008 and 2010 homicide mortality increased significantly, as reflected in rates (180.23%) and AVP (causing a decrease in temporary life expectancy of 0.17 years). Homicide mortality significantly increased after a steady decline since 2000. This does not imply that violence is a widespread problem across the country, as the study shows that it was concentrated in some states.
Homicidios de adolescentes en México, 1979-2005: evolución y variaciones sociogeográficas
En este articulo se analiza el comportamiento de la tasa de homicidios en la adolescencia (10 a 19 anos) en Mexico entre 1979 y 2005, y sus variaciones sociogeograficas para el bienio 2004-2005. Se utilizaron las bases de datos de mortalidad disponibles a traves del Sistema Nacional de Informacion en Salud. Los resultados senalan que la tasa de homicidios en los grupos de 10 a 14 y 15 a 19 anos ha disminuido sustancialmente, pero aun es superior a la que presentan muchos paises industrializados. El descenso ha sido mayor en el genero masculino que en el femenino, y algo mas de 50 por ciento de los homicidios en estas edades son cometidos con armas de fuego. El narcotrafico tiene un mayor peso explicativo en las variaciones interestatales de la tasa de homicidios entre los 15 y 19 anos; en el grupo de 10 a 14,  el mayor peso lo tiene la desercion escolar, en lo referido a homicidios por arma de fuego.
The honesty of thinking : reflections on critical thinking in Nietzsche's middle period and the later Heidegger
This dissertation engages with contemporary interpretations of Nietzsche and Heidegger on the issue of self-knowing with respect to the notions of honesty and authenticity. Accounting for the two philosophers' developing conceptions of these notions allows a response to interpreters who conceive the activity of self-knowing as a primarily personal problem. The alternative accounts proposed take as a point of departure transitional texts that reveal both thinkers to be engaged in processes of revision. The reading of honesty in Chapters 1 and 2 revolves around Nietzsche's groundwork on prejudice in Morgenrothe (1880-81), where he first problematizes the moral-historical forces entailed in actuating the 'will to truth'. The reading of authenticity in Chapters 3 and 4 revolves around Heidegger's lectures on what motivates one's thinking in Was heist Denken? (1951-52). The lectures call into question his previous formal suppositions on what calls forth one's 'will-to-have-a-conscience', in an interpretation of Parmenides on the issue of thought's linguistic determination, discussed further in the context of Unterwegs zur Sprache (1950-59). Chapter 5 shows how Heidegger's confrontation with Nietzsche contributed to his ongoing revisions to the notion of authenticity, and to the attending conceptions of critique and its authority. Particular attention is given to the specific purposes to which distinct Nietzschean foils are put near the confrontation's beginning--in Heidegger's lectures on Nietzsche's second Unzeitgemasse Betrachtung (1938), and in the monograph entitled Besinnung (1939) which they prepare--and near its end, in the interpretation of Also Sprach Zarathustra (1883-85) presented in the first half of Was heist Denken? Chapter 6 recapitulates the developments traced from the vantage point of the retrospective texts Die Zollikoner Seminare (1959-72) and the fifth Book of Die frohliche Wissenschaft (1887). Closing remarks are made in relation to recent empirical research on the socio-environmental structures involved in determining self-identity.