Beginnings of contemporary Mexico

"Catalog of the portraits in the National History Museum, which is the most important collection of colonial portraits in Mexico. A small b/w illustration of each work is accompanied by explanatory text and, in some cases, the biographical dates of the individuals portrayed. Provides date, material, size, and provenance. Also contains a biographical list of artists and illustrations of their signatures in the collection, as well as an index of colonial painters from the 16th-18th centuries and some from the 19th-20th centuries"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

In "La muerte de Artemio Cruz" we are present in the last moments of the lif e of a powerful man, one who was a revolutionary soldier, a lover without passion, and a father without a family. Carlos Fuentes reveals in this novel the thoughts of an elderly man who can no longer fend for himself; the man is confronted with an imminent and torturous death, but his will does not allow him to be defeated.

Deuda externa, tráfico de drogas (y el consumo estadunidense), migración y política exterior, son sólo algunos de los problemas compartidos por ambos países y motivo de análisis en este libro. Autores mexicanos y norteamericanos abordan las relaciones bilaterales, revisan los antecedentes de cada problema y hacen interesantes recomendaciones.

José González Torres ha sido, desde su juventud hasta la edad madura, un jefe nato, un lider natural de las personas y grupos de las instituciones y masas en que anidan las más nobles causas cristianas y mexicanas. Ha sido Presidente Nacional de la A.C.J.M., de la Asociación Internacional Pax Romana, del Partido Acción Nacional, que posteriormente lo póstulo como Candidadto a la Presidencia de la República, de la Asociación de Ex Alumnos Salesianos y actualmente Diputado del PAN ante la LII Legislatura.