Maximilian and Carlota

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.

Cine político en México (1968-2017) busca dibujar caminos que ayuden a visibilizar cierta dimensión histórica, política y social del cine y el video en México; apela a valorar el quehacer cinematográfico y audiovisual en su relación con movimientos sociales y culturales; y se pregunta acerca de los horizontes que se manifiestan, y los efectos que se producen en esa conexión que establece con la realidad. Buscamos establecer un diálogo entre la mirada que analiza la obra y la experiencia de hacer cine o video en México, y es en este intercambio cuando el trabajo toma forma en dos...

Respected political scientists analyze role of electoral left in parliamentary policy and in construction of quality of government. Also broaches topic of organization of leftist groupings in party form. Written during 2018 presidential campaign when victory of leftist candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador was near certainty, proposes thesis that left became one of most powerful electoral forces in Mexico by dint of long years of struggle against repression and by tenacity to insert itself in new democratic order.

There is nothing so dangerous for a town in America as the disinterested love of the United States. Their protection is a fire necklace. Justo Sierra The Fire Necklace is an immense, astonishing novel, where the vibrant prose melts down with the historical erudition. Valerio Evangelisti has written a book difficult to put down once the reading has started; a book in which the reader's imagination keeps running boldly while memorizing and assimilating the homeland's past. It's the story of the Mexican XIX century as never before has been written; its connective threads are the contradictory...