Acuérdate, María

The Medieval Heritage of Mexico is the result of more than thirty years' intensive research. This work examines, more thoroughly than any other, the medieval legacy that influences life in Spanish-speaking North America to the present day. Focusing on the period from 1517--the expedition of Hernandez de Cordoba--to the middle of the seventeenth century, Weckmann describes how explorers, administrators, judges, and clergy introduced to the New World a culture that was essentially medieval. This culture was, in some respects, a flowering--a rebirth, even--of the ideals and institutions of...

"Examines Madero's economic ideas and his approach to various economic issues, including labor-management relations, agrarian reform, and fiscal policy. Argues that Madero's economic policies fell somewhere between 19th-century Liberalism and a more modern interventionism"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

La corrupción es un problema grave que aqueja en mayor o en menor medida a todos los países del mundo. En el caso mexicano, el combate a la corrupción fue incluso el lema que acompañó el triunfo de Andrés Manuel López Obrador en las elecciones federales de 2018. Sin embargo, las políticas de combate a la corrupción aún distan mucho de generar los resultados esperados. En la actualidad, la implementación y el funcionamiento del Sistema Nacional Anticorrupción (sna) creado en 2015 se han visto amenazados por políticas alternativas y personalistas planteadas por el nuevo gobierno...

Sharply critical analysis of Mexico's recent round of ambitious structural reforms, particularly of oil industry and finance reforms, which author says show direct line of descent from 18th-century Bourbon reforms, politics of Porfirio Diaz and neoliberal ideals of Carlos Salinas de Gortari, historical antecedents vilified by many on left in Mexico. Author was Mexico's youngest elected governor and is currently serving in Congress.