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La Enciclopedia Espasa comenzó a publicarse en 1906. Sus 70 tomos, de unas 1500 páginas cada uno, abarcaban millones de artículos, cientos de miles de ilustraciones y una bibliografía inconmensurable; una magnitud tan desbordante que hizo proverbial la frase "si no está en la Espasa, es que no existe". Este libro abarca una mínima parte de sus contenidos, pero ayuda a comprenderla en toda su extensión. Las entradas, agrupadas por bloques temáticos, representan lo más llamativo, curioso y pintoresco de aspectos relativos a las creencias, supersticiones, usos sociales, política, sexo, ...

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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...