Maximilian and Carlota

En este texto se analiza el desempeno del Estado mexicano como impulsor de la economia mixta durante los ultimos 60 anos. La influencia que alcanzo el Estado en la dinamica de la economia nacional se examina a la luz del desarrollo de instituciones e instrumentos de politica del sector publico mexicano.

Filiberto, un hombre de cuarenta años, solitario, amante de las antigüedades prehispánicas mexicanas, empleado en una oficina gubernamental de Ciudad de México, muere ahogado en Acapulco. Su amigo —quien narra la historia—, va a buscar sus restos y en el viaje de regreso a la ciudad lee el diario personal de Filiberto. La transcripción de este diario es el núcleo argumental del relato. Los párrafos iniciales corresponden a días rutinarios, con referencias a encuentros con amigos y reflexiones melancólicas sobre el paso del tiempo y los destinos individuales. Este contenido...

Manuscript circular ofrelating to military assistance from "our generous neighbor to the North" [i.e. the United States]] during the Mexican war of independence and informing the insurgents of the arrival numerous ships and the names of their captains including the ship El Tigre loaded with 3000 barrels of gunpowder. Rayó́n adds that the allied ships have already captured three European ships from Veracruz to Tuxpan.

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...