Entre tiras, porros y caifanes

An historiographic and analytical study of the crucial decade of the 1930s under the Cárdenas administration. The author advances the revisionist thesis that the period was more marked by a moderate political climate than one of radical change.

Letter from Ramos Arizpe to the governor of San Luis Potosi, informs him that a chain of prisoners will soon be passing through San Luis Potosi on their way to promote colonies in Texas, and that the governor should add his prisoners to the chain.

Reprints of articles and stories featured in the first ten years of the daily newspaper Uno más uno.

Researchers Castro Ricalde and McKee present a documental work covering sources from the United States, México, Cuba, Argentina, Venezuela, Colombia, Spain and Serbia to account for the complex development of the Mexican cinematographic industry in the first half of the 20th century and its efforts to establish a national identity myth designed for local consumer commercialization and powerful enough to stand against Hollywood dominance. The study spans 2 decades from the first sound movie Santa (1932) to 1955, when the "Mexican cinema of the "Golden Age" had a preponderant role in the...