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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.

Este volumen incluye contribuciones de destacados especialistas que, en conjunto, brindan una visi n global de diversos aspectos de la realidad nacional. H ctor Fix-Zamudio analiza el poder judicial y sus transformaciones; Juan Rebolledo examina el sistema electoral; Germ n P rez y Samuel Le n estudian el sistema pol tico; H ctor Cuadra investiga la rector a econ mica del Estado, y Samuel Valencia eval a la actuaci n de M xico frente a las relaciones exteriores.

Funcionario p blico y maestro, Mois s S enz fue tambi n viajero y escritor. Fund escuelas e institutos; ocup altos cargos dentro del gobierno, en el mbito educativo y en el diplom tico. Dentro de la amplia gama de estas actividades hay una nota com n: su inter s por el M xico indio, por el M xico de los campesinos. En estos textos, S enz busca lo propio de un pa s que no est integrado: "el mestizo, el M xico urbano y el campesino, el M xico indio".

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.