Gesto, identidad y memoria

"Nine critical essays by well-known authors (González Casanovas, De la Peña, Eduardo Menéndez, and others) examine role of government and public policies during 1980s. Some issues include health, education and technology policies, Church-State relations, political transformation toward modernization, and new political culture"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.

1888, pt. 2, includes meteoroloical observations reported from the Observatorio Meteorológico-Magnético de Central Mexico, for the years 1877-1888.

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.

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.