El levantamiento delahuertista

Los de abjo treats what is perhaps the saddest period in modern Mexican history, a period of aimless slaughter when a whole nation was plunged into strife by leaders who had few clear ideas of what they were striving for. The reader shares the same disillusionment that the author himself must have felt as he met leader after leader whose revolutionary zeal was merely a disguise for base passions and desires.

Compiles and studies articles attesting to process by which northern Mexican anarchist ideologues identified and recognized Zapata and his movement, as reflected in anarchist newspaper published (from exile in U.S.) by Flores Magon brothers. Presents articles by 36 writers (plus articles under pseudonyms and anonymous entries), including Enrique and Ricardo Flores Magón, J.R. Berriozábal, R.G. Cox and others. Organized alphabetically by author, opens with substantial (pp.11-47) essay on historical context and ideological difficulties between Zapatismo and anarchist movement of time.

An excellent analysis of the nature and scope of Mexican social assistance programs, recent systemic changes, political implications and future considerations.

El estudio de los problemas sociales de México, y en especial de la Revolución Mexicana, ha sido preocupación constante de Jesús Silva Herzog. En esta obra expone los momentos principales de este movimiento armado desde fines del Porfiriato hasta el régimen constitucional de Venustiano Carranza, destacando el trasfondo económico que determinó el cambio radical de la sociedad mexicana. El hacendísmo, con su formación de latifundios en detrimento de peones y de comunidades, las tiendas de raya, el ausentismo de los propietarios, son causas de malestar agrario: en las ciudades, la...