Repúblicas en armas

Exclusive interviews with key political figures in Mexico—former presidents Zedillo and Salinas, and guerrilla leader Marcos—are the basis of this study that untangles the complex influences that have shaped Mexico over the past 20 years. From the Zapatistas to electoral fraud, this well-researched history accounts for many parts of Mexican politics and economy that have remained obscured by official silence. Beyond recurring catastrophes, however, this journalist finds the seed of a modern democracy in Vicente Fox's presidency, one which the author analyzes in a prologue added for this...

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"Olegario Montemayor, hijo del productor de henequâen mâas poderoso de Yucatâan, se traslada a la Inglaterra victoriana de principios del siglo XX para estudiar en Oxford. Marion Scott, una de las pocas mujeres estudiantes en esa universidad, lo deslumbra y contagia con sus preocupaciones sociales. Juntos, viajan a Yucatâan para descubrir una brutal realidad imposible de combatir desde las aulas: la obscena codicia del patriarca de la familia Montemayor y de sus socios ignora cualquier lâimite en su ambiciâon por dominar el mercado del "oro verde." Victimas de una alianza trabada entre...

CUBA 1959 is a fictional novel written in the Spanish language that recounts the determination and success of a group of young Cubans resisting against Fidel Castro's takeover of the island on January 1, 1959. Their political organization, the Brigada de Accion Popular manages to escape Castro's vindictive militias, and form an insurgent government inside Cuban territory; from there on the novel embarks on a fast-paced, entertaining and suspenseful narrative. As the author says: "it could have made the difference". Readers, Cuban or not will enjoy this novel's creativity, action and profound...