Gesto, identidad y memoria

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

La ciudad se ha congelado. El movimiento del 68 vive su dolorosa derrota. Néstor Roca en un hospital de la Ciudad de México, llama a sus héroes de la infancia para derrocar al gobierno de Díaz Ordaz, y a su llamado llegan Sherlock Holmes, Sandokán con Yáñez, los tres mosqueteros, los lanceros de Balaclava, los Mau Mau, Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, el sabueso de los Baskerville y Dick Turpin. Será el duelo definitivo, mientras el terrible año de la derrota, 1969 sigue corriendo y desde Lecumberri José Revueltas nos cuenta un motín de presos políticos y el propio Taibo reportero, el...

"Detailed study of Michoacán during the governorship of Félix Ireta Viveros. Emphasizes the connections between local and national political processes and argues that, despite the popularity of Cardenismo in Michoacán, Ireta embraced the agenda of the Avila Camacho administration"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

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.