Entre la caridad y el derecho

In this new telling of Mexico's Second Empire and Louis Napoléon's installation of Maximilian von Habsburg and his wife, Carlota of Belgium, as the emperor and empress of Mexico, Maximilian and Carlota brings the dramatic, interesting, and tragic time of this six-year-siege to life. From 1861 to 1866, the French incorporated the armies of Austria, Belgium--including forces from Crimea to Egypt--to fight and subdue the regime of Mexico's Benito Juárez during the time of the U.S. Civil War. France viewed this as a chance to seize Mexican territory in a moment they were convinced the...

"Important study of the Maximato (1928-34) sees Cardenismo as the culmination of - rather than the replacement for - many important political developments under Calles. Concludes that there were 'important differences' but also 'essential overlaps' between Calles and Cárdenas. Cardenismo would not have been possible without the Maximato"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

"La diva reposa y advierte que su hora final se aproxima. Su calmada agonía le permite repasar esa vida entre el glamour y la tragedia; la formación a fuego y fuerza, templada por el desierto y la vocación de ser jinete de su destino. Una hora final que se aproxima solo para coincidir con el aniversario de su nacimiento y así hacer más grande la leyenda: con la muerte, una nueva historia comienza. María reposa y una serie de figuras queridas desfilan de nuevo: Alex Berger, su hijo Quique, Lara, Negrete; el canto de sirena nunca escuchado de Hollywood, el encanto de París; Paplo, su...

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.