La política económica durante el gobierno de Francisco I. Madero

Document referring to an incident where a government official was denied access to a miltary hospital. It refers to an article in a law from 1739 concerning how officials may conduct visits and other commisions in hospitals.

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.

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...