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The Story of Mexico's political rebirth, by two Pulitzer prize-winning reporters
Opening Mexico is a narrative history of the citizens' movement which dismantled the kleptocratic one-party state that dominated Mexico in the twentieth century, and replaced it with a lively democracy. Told through the stories of Mexicans who helped make the transformation, the book gives new and gripping behind-the-scenes accounts of major episodes in Mexico's recent...
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In the essays in A New Time for Mexico, Carlos Fuentes discusses the history, origins and nature of Mexico's political system and the unforeseen, tumultuous events that began in 1994 with the rebellion in Chiapas and continued with a rash of assassinations, the break between presidents Salinas and Zedillo, and continual traumas for a society making the transition from authoritarian to democratic politics.
3) Adam in Eden
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A respected Mexican businessman finds his idyllic life crumbling in the face of his wife's infidelity with a corrupt director of national security, his brother-in-law's worship of a child preacher, and his mistress' break with reality.
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Zeitgeist Films
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English
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In 1994 the Zapatista National Liberation Army, made up of impoverished Maya Indians, took over five towns and 500 ranches in southern Mexico. Fighting for indigenous Mexicans to regain control over their lives and the land, the Zapatista Army, led by Subcommandante Marcos, started sending their message to the world via the Internet. The result was what the New York Times called "the world's first post-modern revolution." Here the filmmaker, who traveled...
10) México Negro
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Penguin Random House Grupo USA
Pub. Date
2021.
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Edición 35 aniversario.
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686 pages
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Español
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"Tal parece que, como sentenció el poeta: «El niño Dios te escrituró un establo y los veneros del petróleo, el diablo», pues de pronto en el territorio de una nación mayoritariamente pobre aparecieron inmensas chapopoteras en las que el petróleo afloraba, exhibiendo una riqueza insospechada, y las grandes potencias conspiraron para apropiárselas. Por las páginas de esta magnética novela transitan hombres de negocios disfrazados de diplomáticos,...
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México siglo XX volume t. 6
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Clio
Pub. Date
1999
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1. ed.
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95 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.
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Español
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Grijalbo
Pub. Date
2012
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Premera ed.
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293 p., p. [8] col. plates ; 23 cm.
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Español
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Constituye una indispensable revisión crítica y una enérgica denuncia de los casos más escandalosos de corrupción y complicidad política del llamado "sexenio de la muerte", donde destacan apellidos tan diversos como García Luna, Cárdenas Palomino, Acosta Chaparro, Miranda de Wallace o Salinas de Gortari. = Argues that the consequences of Felipe Calderáon's term as president of Mexico include increased power for drug gangsters, more than sixty...
20) De paso
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Bruguera
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2009
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184 p. ; 21 cm.
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Español
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