Entre tiras, porros y caifanes

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.

"Important study of the Maximato (1928-34) sees Cardenismo as the culmination of - rather than the replacement for - many important political developments under Calles. Concludes that there were 'important differences' but also 'essential overlaps' between Calles and Cárdenas. Cardenismo would not have been possible without the Maximato"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

A series of narratives based on the history of a hacienda in San Gertrudis, Chihuahua during the Mexican revolution, with focus on the incursion of rebel troops and the reaction of rural residents. The author (1944) is a native of San Gertrudis.

Estos apuntes y la recopilación documental que se anexa por separado constituyen una parte de la investigación coordinada por el licenciado Roberto Borja Ochoa sobre la clase obrera mexicana en la actualidad. Hemos decidido presentar este informe limitándonos a la CTM. Por constituir, como se sabe, la central más numerosa en el sindicalismo mexicano contemporáneo y la que inició el cambio, al que aludimos, y arrastró a otras centrales, y al CT, a adoptar también nuevas políticas. Se pretende responder a esta pregunta: ¿Qué propone la CTM ante la criris?No ignoramos que el nuevo...