Entre la caridad y el derecho

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.

Cuenta la vida del cura Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, las obras que cumplió donde sea que se le mandara, y el papel que tuvo en la revolución para la independencia de México.

"A reporter's detailed account, with considerable political insight, of the conflicts between the PRI and the opposition in the state of Michoacán, an intense microcosm of Mexico's political frustrations and electoral fraud occurring from 1886-1993"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.

There is nothing so dangerous for a town in America as the disinterested love of the United States. Their protection is a fire necklace. Justo Sierra The Fire Necklace is an immense, astonishing novel, where the vibrant prose melts down with the historical erudition. Valerio Evangelisti has written a book difficult to put down once the reading has started; a book in which the reader's imagination keeps running boldly while memorizing and assimilating the homeland's past. It's the story of the Mexican XIX century as never before has been written; its connective threads are the contradictory...