La revolución en crisis

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.

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.

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.

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...