La real historia de México

RESUMEN: En la colección de charlas de café, una de las nietas de Francisco Villa, quien es una reconocida historiadora decide de contar brevemente la vida de Pancho villa; Los motivos de su rebelión, sus inicios como un fugitivo a los 16 años, su lucha por los pobres, su aversión a ser fotografiado, el halo de misterio que lo rodeó, sus relaciones con las mujeres, sus hijos; Y por supuesto el papel primordial que tuvo en la Revolución mexicana, sus ideas sociales, sus enemigos todo esto para comprender un poco más al Centauro del Norte a través de una charla espiritista e informal...

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.

A biography of the Mexican priest who led his Indian followers to revolt against the Spaniards and became known as "The Father of Mexican Independence."

"Garrido, author of an outstanding historical study of the founding and early years of the Partido Revolucionario Institucional, offers the first book-length analysis of the most important internal development within the party's structure: the Corriente Democrática. Analyzes party divisions which produced the Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas presidential candidacy in 1988"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.