La política del desarrollo mexicano

"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...

El presente volumen ofrece por primera vez un documento de analisis claro, preciso y critico sobre las condiciones economicas, comerciales y politicas en que se gestara la transformacion estructural de las economias participantes y la actividad comercial entre los paises de la Cuenca del Pacifico, asi como sobre las perspectivas comerciales y politicas previsibles para los proximos anos en uno de los mercados mas importantes del mundo.

Las semblanzas aqui presentadas tienen el encanto de la brevedad y lo anecdotico, para contar sobre el genio epigramatico y mordaz del ilustre Francisco de Tres Guerras, el arquitecto mexicano por excelencia del neoclasico; de los arrebatos juveniles de Ignacio Ramirez El Nigromante, o de las indiscretas ironias del Gallo Pitagorico, entre una veintena de personajes de la historia de Mexico.