Gesto, identidad y memoria

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.

Sharply critical analysis of Mexico's recent round of ambitious structural reforms, particularly of oil industry and finance reforms, which author says show direct line of descent from 18th-century Bourbon reforms, politics of Porfirio Diaz and neoliberal ideals of Carlos Salinas de Gortari, historical antecedents vilified by many on left in Mexico. Author was Mexico's youngest elected governor and is currently serving in Congress.

A fourteen-year-old boy sailing in 1568 with an English trading fleet is taken hostage by the Spanish while in the port of Vera Cruz, escapes during an Aztec uprising, and begins a dangerous journey to freedom.

Michel Chevalier fue uno de los hombres que, en su calidad de senador franc s, inspir a Napole n III su desafortunada empresa intervencionista en M xico. Este libro es una recopilaci n de textos de promoci n imperialista que tuvieron como prop sito impulsar la idea de la creaci n en Am rica de un imperio latino, cat lico y eurocentrista.