%0 Journal Article %T Los futuros de M¨¦xico: encrucijada y clavos en el zapato %A Alonso Concheiro %A Antonio %J Polis %D 2011 %I UAM, Unidad Iztapalapa %X the essay argues that, up to now, mexico still lacks to imagine its long term futures; it states that it is urgent to make a collective, systematic and rigorous effort to do so. anticipating such an effort, the essay outlines in an overall view, a critical perspective of what has happened in the last twenty years-since the birth of polis and up to our days-in several spheres of the national life: demography, economics, politics and society. in each case it also sketches possible futures over the next two decades, or issues that would be important to consider in imagining such futures. %K mexico %K past %K futures %K scenarios %K demography %K economics %K politics %K society. %U http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1870-23332011000200002&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en