Don Porfirio presidente--, nunca omnipotente

Selection of the papers presented at the XXIII Encuentro Nacional de Investigadores del Pensamiento Novohispano in Zacatecas in 2010.

Jes s Reyes Heroles (1921-1985) llena una poca en el pensamiento contempor neo de M xico. En sus varias facetas como pol tico, jurista, administrador p blico, educador e historiador nos leg una fecunda labor creadora que hoy se ha podido integrar en estas Obras completas. En este primer volumen se recogen sus reflexiones te ricas sobre el Estado, el Estado de derecho, la raz n de estado, el derecho al trabajo y la ciencia pol tica, as como un profundo an lisis sobre la obra de Guicciardini y de Mirabeau.

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.

"Revisionist view of the traditional interpretation of 1923 revolt as a reaction against Obregón's imposition of Calles. Authors study four different regional revolts between 1923-24, all with different leaders and provoked by different causes: Rómulo Figueroa in Guerrero, Enrique Estrada in Jalisco, Guadalupe Sánchez in Veracruz, and Fortunato Maycotte in Oaxaca. Rebels failed because of a lack of central control or unifying program. Adolfo de la Huerta played only a 'decorative role' in the armed movement against Obregón"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.