México y Estados Unidos

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...

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.

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.

Deuda externa, tráfico de drogas (y el consumo estadunidense), migración y política exterior, son sólo algunos de los problemas compartidos por ambos países y motivo de análisis en este libro. Autores mexicanos y norteamericanos abordan las relaciones bilaterales, revisan los antecedentes de cada problema y hacen interesantes recomendaciones.