Bajo las nubes de México

Essays by specialists in several fields that document current Mexican realities and extrapolate what they might portend for country in future. Encompasses wide range of issues and trends, from ethnicity and peasant communities, to church-state relations, unions, environmental concerns, crime, higher education, urban growth, mobility, corruption, democracy and many more. Organized into sections on population, housing and cities; institutions and public policy; and insertion in globalized world.

The main body of the book is the facsimile and transcription of the collection of themanuscript and typed letters and telegraphs mailed between artist Frida Kahlo and doctor LeoEloesser, and enriched with contributions written by experts in art and medicine such as CarlosMonsivais, Teresa del Conde, Juan Pascoe, and others. The group of letters corresponds to 3phases covering from 1936 to 1951: The first part reflects a courteous friendship and a paternalrelationship of total confidence and where she consults him for all medical and personal matters.The second part of the correspondence airs...

This work contains fresh information located at the Sergei Eisenstein Museum and in his personal archive, both located in Moscow, which clearly indicates that there is still more to say about the Soviet director's unfinished movie, financed by Upton Sinclair. The discovery of the first version of the screenplay as well as books on Mexico and bullfight programs enables the manner in which the film developed and was structured through short stories to be reconsidered.

Selección de tres breves ensayos históricos de Manuel Orozco y Berra en torno a los primeros años de la Conquista. Presentada por Ernesto de la Torre Villar, contiene los textos titulados: Los conquistadores de México, Síntesis de la conquista de México, y Las empresas de los conquistadores. En ellos se abordan las condiciones materiales y espirituales con las que fue realizada la empresa de conquista, se relatan algunos hechos generales y particulares (relacionados con Hernán Cortés y Pedro de Alvarado) y se ofrece un balance histórico de dicho acontecimiento. La edición se...