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Book The First Year of President Carlos Salinas de Gortari

Download or read book The First Year of President Carlos Salinas de Gortari written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Address by the President of Mexico  Carlos Salinas de Gortari

Download or read book Address by the President of Mexico Carlos Salinas de Gortari written by Carlos Salinas de Gortari and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Perpetuating Power

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  • Author : Jorge G. Castaneda
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2001-10
  • ISBN : 9781565847088
  • Pages : 248 pages

Download or read book Perpetuating Power written by Jorge G. Castaneda and published by . This book was released on 2001-10 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The widely acclaimed explication of Mexican politics from "one of the most insightful Mexican intellectuals" (The New York Times Book Review). Jorge Castaneda, recently named Mexico's foreign minister, has been both an insider and an outsider in Mexico's political system. In Perpetuating Power, he lays bare the often mystifying workings of power in Mexico, offering readers what the New York Times Book Review called "an unusually revealing explication of the inner workings of three decades of presidential succession." To outside observers, Mexico stood out for its odd mixture of democratic pretension with autocratic inevitability: there were always elections, but everyone knew the next president would be the candidate of the aptly named Party of the Institutional Revolution, which governed Mexico throughout most of the last century. In six penetrating essays combined with interviews by Castaneda with each of the living Mexican ex-presidents, Perpetuating Power provides a remarkably candid account of the political machinery behind Mexican presidential politics and a view, startling to political outsiders, of how power really operates.

Book Mexico

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  • Author : Enrique Krauze
  • Publisher : Harper Collins
  • Release : 2013-04-09
  • ISBN : 0062285262
  • Pages : 885 pages

Download or read book Mexico written by Enrique Krauze and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-04-09 with total page 885 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concentration of power in the caudillo (leader) is as much a formative element of Mexican culture and politics as the historical legacy of the Aztec emperors, Cortez, the Spanish Crown, the Mother Church and the mixing of the Spanish and Indian population into a mestizo culture. Krauze shows how history becomes biography during the century of caudillos from the insurgent priests in 1810 to Porfirio and the Revolution in 1910. The Revolutionary era, ending in 1940, was dominated by the lives of seven presidents -- Madero, Zapata, Villa, Carranza, Obregon, Calles and Cardenas. Since 1940, the dominant power of the presidency has continued through years of boom and bust and crisis. A major question for the modern state, with today's president Zedillo, is whether that power can be decentralized, to end the cycles of history as biographies of power.

Book M  xico

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  • Author : Carlos Salinas de Gortari
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1448 pages

Download or read book M xico written by Carlos Salinas de Gortari and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 1448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Politics  Gender  and the Mexican Novel  1968 1988

Download or read book Politics Gender and the Mexican Novel 1968 1988 written by Cynthia Steele and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-07-05 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The student massacre at Tlatelolco in Mexico City on October 2, 1968, marked the beginning of an era of rapid social change in Mexico. In this illuminating study, Cynthia Steele explores how the writers of the next two decades responded to the massacre and to the social crisis it signaled in terms of political change and gender identity.

Book Inaugural Address

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  • Author : Mexico. President (1988-1994 : Salinas de Gortari)
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1988
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 36 pages

Download or read book Inaugural Address written by Mexico. President (1988-1994 : Salinas de Gortari) and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Address by Carlos Salinas de Gortari  President of Mexico  During the Luncheon with Businessmen from the International Conference of Industrialists

Download or read book Address by Carlos Salinas de Gortari President of Mexico During the Luncheon with Businessmen from the International Conference of Industrialists written by Carlos Salinas de Gortari and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Triumphs and Tragedy

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  • Author : Ramón Eduardo Ruiz
  • Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
  • Release : 1992
  • ISBN : 9780393310665
  • Pages : 518 pages

Download or read book Triumphs and Tragedy written by Ramón Eduardo Ruiz and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1992 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An epic history of Mexico from its Olmec, Aztec, and Mayan heritage to the present day.

Book The Politics of Water

Download or read book The Politics of Water written by Vivienne Bennett and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 1995-11-15 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monterrey is Mexico's second most important industrial city, emerging in this era of free trade as a cornerstone of Mexico's economic development. But development has been uneven and has taken a toll: As recently as the early 1980s, nearly a quarter of the city's almost three million inhabitants did not have running water in their homes. At the same time, heavy industry - especially steel, iron, chemical, and paper works - were major users of water in their production processes.Extensive industrialization coupled with a lack of infrastructure development astonishing in a major industrial city raises serious questions about the process of planning urban services in Mexico. Bennett uses the water crisis of the 1980s as a lens through which to reveal this planning process and the provision of public services in Monterrey. She finds three groups who were central to the evolution of the city's water system: federal and state government leaders, the regional private sector elite (the Grupo Monterrey), and women living in the low-income neighborhoods of the city.Bennett unravels the politics of water in Monterrey by following three threads of inquiry. First, she examines the water services themselves - what was built, when, why, and who paid for them. She then reveals the response of poor women to the water crisis, analyzing who participated in protests, the strategies they used, and how the government responded. And, finally, she considers the dynamics of planning water services for the private sector and the government in investment and management. In the end, Monterrey's water services improved because power relations shifted and because poor women in Monterrey used protests to make national news out of the city's water crisis.The Politics of Water makes a significant contribution to the emerging scholarship on regional politics in Mexico and to a deeper understanding of the Monterrey region in particular. Until recently, most scholarly writing on Mexico spoke of the national political system as a monolithic whole. Scholars such as Vivienne Bennett are now recognizing the power of local citizens and the significant differences among regions when it comes to politics, policy making, and governmental investment decisions.

Book Limits to Friendship

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  • Author : Robert A. Pastor
  • Publisher : Vintage
  • Release : 1989-10-23
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 440 pages

Download or read book Limits to Friendship written by Robert A. Pastor and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1989-10-23 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing alternate chapters on such subjects as foreign policy, economic relations, immigration, and social influence, the authors present fresh and informative portaits of these two countries.

Book Mexican Messiah

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  • Author : George W. Grayson
  • Publisher : Penn State Press
  • Release : 2010-11-01
  • ISBN : 9780271047294
  • Pages : 368 pages

Download or read book Mexican Messiah written by George W. Grayson and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The emergence of Latin American firebrands who champion the cause of the impoverished and rail against the evils of neoliberalism and Yankee imperialism--Hugo Chávez in Venezuela, Evo Morales in Bolivia, Néstor Kirchner in Argentina, Andrés Manuel López Obrador in Mexico--has changed the landscape of the Americas in dramatic ways. This is the first biography to appear in English about one of these charismatic figures, who is known in his country by his adopted nickname of "Little Ray of Hope." The book follows López Obrador's life from his early years in the flyspecked state of Tabasco, his university studies, and the years that he lived among the impoverished Chontal Indians. Even as he showed an increasingly messianic élan to uplift the downtrodden, he confronted the muscular Institutional Revolutionary Party in running twice for governor of his home state and helping found the leftist-nationalist Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD). As the PRD's national president, he escalated his political and ideological warfare against his former president, Carlos Salinas, and other "conspirators" determined to link Mexico to the global economy at the expense of the poor. His strident advocacy of the "have-nots" lifted López Obrador to the mayorship of Mexico City, which he rechristened the "City of Hope." Its ubiquitous crime, traffic, pollution, and housing problems have made the capital a tomb for most politicians. Not for López Obrador. Through splashy public works, monthly stipends to senior citizens, huge marches, and a dawn-to-dusk work schedule, he converted the position into a trampoline to the presidency. Although he lost the official count by an eyelash, the hard-charging Tabascan cried fraud, took the oath as the nation's "legitimate president," and barnstormed the country, excoriating the "fascist" policies of President Felipe Calderón and preparing to redeem the destitute in the 2012 presidential contest. Grayson views López Obrador as quite different from populists like Chávez, Morales, and Kirchner and argues that he is a "secular messiah, who lives humbly, honors prophets, gathers apostles, declares himself indestructible, relishes playing the role of victim, and preaches a doctrine of salvation by returning to the values of the 1917 Constitution-- fairness for workers, Indians' rights, fervent nationalism, and anti-imperialism."

Book The History of Entrepreneurship in Mexico

Download or read book The History of Entrepreneurship in Mexico written by Araceli Almaraz Alvarado and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2020-06-03 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Entrepreneurs develop based on their surroundings. It is easy to understand US entrepreneurs, with the wealth of information available about their development, but how does working in Mexico influence entrepreneurship, and emerging entrepreneurs?

Book A History of the World from the 20th to the 21st Century

Download or read book A History of the World from the 20th to the 21st Century written by John Ashley Soames Grenville and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 1016 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a comprehensive survey of the key events and personalities of this period.

Book Mexico in Crisis

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  • Author : Donald E. Schulz
  • Publisher : CreateSpace
  • Release : 2013-03-07
  • ISBN : 9781482623284
  • Pages : 82 pages

Download or read book Mexico in Crisis written by Donald E. Schulz and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-03-07 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines the development of the crisis in Mexico, with the primary focus on the 6-year term of President Carlos Salinas de Gortari and the first few months of his successor, President Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León. It poses the question of how a country with such seemingly bright prospects as Mexico in the wake of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) approval by the U.S. Congress could so quickly plunge into crisis. The answer is that these problems had been festering for some time. By 1994, a combination of factors–including recurrent economic crises, a failure to introduce meaningful political reforms, the social devastation wrought by neoliberal economic policies, continuing corruption and mismanagement by Mexican political and economic elites, human rights violations, and the growing power of narcotraffickers–was sufficient to destabilize what had long been considered one of the most stable countries in Latin America. The prospects for the future are mixed, at best. While some substantive political, judicial and police reforms have been belatedly made, serious doubts remain as to how far President Zedillo will be willing/able to go in challenging the power and perquisites of the traditional government/Partido Revolu- cionario Institucional (PRI) elite and the narcotraffickers. A major threat to these elements would probably in itself be destabilizing; it could also be personally dangerous for Zedillo at a time when political assassinations are becoming increasingly commonplace. Moreover, corruption and inefficiency are so ingrained in the political institutions and practices at all levels of Mexican society that nothing short of a wholesale cultural revolution seems likely to solve the basic problem. Such fundamental changes in values are notoriously difficult to carry out and would take years, indeed decades, to accomplish. Thus, while the economy may pick up in a year or two and significant advances in democratization may occur, political violence and social turmoil will continue, at least in the short-to-medium run. In turn, this will pose serious problems for the United States, especially in the areas of illegal immigration, narcotrafficking, and all the costs and dangers they pose for American society.

Book A Concise History of Mexico

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  • Author : Brian R. Hamnett
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2006-05-04
  • ISBN : 0521852846
  • Pages : 25 pages

Download or read book A Concise History of Mexico written by Brian R. Hamnett and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-05-04 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This updated edition offers an accessible and richly illustrated study of Mexico's political, social, economic and cultural history.