Apertura Externa, Industria Manufacturera y Poltica Industrial en Mxico*

Estados Unidos se ha definido siempre como un caso excepcional, un primer experimento político que muchas naciones han imitado antes o después. Su vasta superficie y el aumento constante y acelerado de su población condicionaron desde sus inicios los modos de vida de sus habitantes y configuraron su identidad como coloso demográfico y país inmigrante. El credo de la libertad, la fórmula que los Padres Fundadores encontraron para dotar de unidad y coherencia al país fue, a la larga, exitosa: Estados Unidos es la democracia más longeva del planeta y su escueta Constitución la más...

As a young man, Ramon Perez aka Tianguis interrupted his studies and elisted in a burgeoning guerrilla movement to reclaim his people to ancestral communal lands in the mountains of Oaxaca, Mexico. From the grassroots organizing conducted by the peasants to the power of regional and national politicians to enforce their social order with pistoleros -- through Tianguis' unwavering account we experience the struggle and its consequences. The pursuit of Guiero Medrano -- and of Tianguis and his friends -- is unremitting; there is no escape as they flee through the forests, small towns, and...

The true operatic tragedy of Maximilian and Carlota, the European aristocrats who stumbled into power in Mexico—and faced bloody consequences. In the 1860s, Napoleon III, intent on curbing the rise of American imperialism, persuaded a young Austrian archduke and a Belgian princess to leave Europe and become the emperor and empress of Mexico. They and their entourage arrived in a Mexico ruled by terror, where revolutionary fervor was barely suppressed by French troops. When the United States, now clear of its own Civil War, aided the rebels in pushing back Maximilian’s imperial soldiers,...

A colorful journey through time, 'You Are My Survival' unveils the truth about how Europe and America became wealthy world powers through the human suffering of billions of innocent lives. Nothing can describe the horrific atrocities that the colonial slave traders inflicted or the very demise of their wealthy heirs to overlook and forget the extreme global crimes that their fathers committed against humanity. We've learned history, Now it's time for our story.