En un día como hoy--

José González Torres ha sido, desde su juventud hasta la edad madura, un jefe nato, un lider natural de las personas y grupos de las instituciones y masas en que anidan las más nobles causas cristianas y mexicanas. Ha sido Presidente Nacional de la A.C.J.M., de la Asociación Internacional Pax Romana, del Partido Acción Nacional, que posteriormente lo póstulo como Candidadto a la Presidencia de la República, de la Asociación de Ex Alumnos Salesianos y actualmente Diputado del PAN ante la LII Legislatura.

Mexico may be able to recover Texas, Arizona and New Mexico. Will Venustiano Carranza accept the offer of the German government to recover that lost territory? Silently a violent storm is growing. The Mexican president analyze the German Kaizer Guillermo II, without knowing that this telegram Zimmermann Telegram- has been decrypted by Great Britain detonating the first world war.

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.

"Long overdue biography of the 'always bridesmaid' of the early republic. Author says much more about the political maneuvers of the period, concentrating on personalities of the Mexican elite. Somewhat useful"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.