Opening Mexico The Making of a Democracy

Name: Opening Mexico The Making of a Democracy
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ISBN: 9780374529642

ISBN-10: 0374529647

ISBN-13: 9780374529642

Edition: N/A

Authors: Julia Preston, Samuel Dillon

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The Story of Mexico's political rebirth, by two pulitzer prize-winning reporters Opening Mexico is a narrative history of the citizens' movement which dismantled the kleptocratic one-party state that dominated Mexico in the twentieth century, and replaced it with a lively democracy. Told through the stories of Mexicans who helped make the transformation, the book gives new and gripping behind-the-scenes accounts of major episodes in Mexico's recent politics. Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party, led by presidents who ruled like Mesoamerican monarchs, came to be called "the perfect dictatorship." But a 1968 massacre of student protesters by government snipers ignited the desire for…

Book details

List price: $41.00
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 3/15/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 608
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.25" long x 1.75" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English



Preface: Making Mexican Democracy



The Day of the Change



From Disorder to Despotism



Tlatelolco, 1968



Earthquake, 1985



Chihuahua, 1986



1988



The Carlos Salinas Show



1994



Ernesto Zedillo, the Outsider



Raul



The General and the Drug Lord



Testing Change, 1997



The Earcutter



Opening Minds



Chiapas



Democracy at Work



Campaign for Change


Epilogue


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index