Las Historias Mas Tristes de Nuestra Historia

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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...

La autora asume el desafío de ofrecer una nueva lectura de la vida y vicisitudes de Francisco de Miranda, desde el momento en que abandona Venezuela, con apenas 20 años, hasta el triste desenlace que representó para su vida el fin de la Primera República, su entrega a las autoridades españolas, la prisión y su posterior fallecimiento en La Carraca. El libro comienza con el acontecimiento del cual deriva su título: un incómodo y escandaloso incidente promovido por los criollos principales de la capital contra su padre, Sebastián Miranda, tenido como individuo de inferior condición y...

El presente libro surge del interés por reconstruir las trayectorias de las poblaciones indígenas, reconstituidas desde prácticas estatales y a partir de sus propias estrategias de participación como actores sociales y políticos de las sociedades americanas decimonónicas.