Entre la guerra y la estabilidad política

"Este volumen es un esfuerzo por hacer un recuento de las transformaciones experimentadas a lo largo de las dos últimas décadas. Los textos que reúne describen el impacto de los gobiernos divididos en la configuración de políticas públicas, reformas legales y ejercicio del poder político, desde una diversidad de enfoques teóricos especializados"--Page 4 of cover.

Deuda externa, tráfico de drogas (y el consumo estadunidense), migración y política exterior, son sólo algunos de los problemas compartidos por ambos países y motivo de análisis en este libro. Autores mexicanos y norteamericanos abordan las relaciones bilaterales, revisan los antecedentes de cada problema y hacen interesantes recomendaciones.

Essays by specialists in several fields that document current Mexican realities and extrapolate what they might portend for country in future. Encompasses wide range of issues and trends, from ethnicity and peasant communities, to church-state relations, unions, environmental concerns, crime, higher education, urban growth, mobility, corruption, democracy and many more. Organized into sections on population, housing and cities; institutions and public policy; and insertion in globalized world.

Manuscript circular ofrelating to military assistance from "our generous neighbor to the North" [i.e. the United States]] during the Mexican war of independence and informing the insurgents of the arrival numerous ships and the names of their captains including the ship El Tigre loaded with 3000 barrels of gunpowder. Rayó́n adds that the allied ships have already captured three European ships from Veracruz to Tuxpan.