Don Francisco Xavier Venégas de Saavedra, Rodriguez de Arezana, Güemes, Mora, Pacheco, Daza, y Maldonado, Caballero del Orden de Calatrava...Por quanto atendiendo á las recomendables circunstancias de concurren en D. Diego Fernandez Peredo, hé venido ...

Exhibition of the mural and the art surrounding Diego Rivera's famous mural " Sueño de una tarde dominical en la Alameda Central". Completed in 1947, the mural depicts scenes and people from the Spanish Conquest to the middle of the 20th century. The exhibition is based on the documentary collection of the great collector Ricardo Pérez Escamilla. The exhibition unites in order the documents and original publications that have iconographic roots in the mural. Other works of the epoch have been included to show different imagery or graphics of the images present in the mural as a complement...

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.

La venta fue el centro mas importante de la cultura olmeca, y puede considerarse la cuna de la civilizacion en el Mexico prehispanico. Los protagonistas de esta historia son un mago y su joven aprendiz.

"Six essays approach the history of Mexican railroads from the perspective of the 'new economic history.' See especially Soto's essays on the relationship between industry and railroads in Monterrey, and Grunstein Dickter on the difference in approach between the científicos and the Carrancistas; however, all essays are important and well done. Recommended"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.