Don Porfirio presidente--, nunca omnipotente

"Isabela Huffman is a precocious 8 1/2-year-old girl who can't seem to keep herself out of trouble on a visit to Guanajuato, Mexico, with her mother. She wants to be the president when she grows up. Or a ballerina. Or the president and a ballerina. She's dramatic. She sings on the bus, screams like a baby after putting chile powder on her fresh mango and convinces her mom to buy five pair of new shoes for a big family. No matter how many times her mom asks her to just sit down like a normal little girl, she just can't help getting up to take more pictures of her adventures. When will Isabela...

Articles and letters by Cosío Villegas and other scholars, previously published in various periodicals, discussing the Mexican Revolution, the Partido Revolucionario Institucional, and Armando R. Pareyón Azpeitia.

Los años noventa son recordados por sus promesas: el fin de la luchas ideológicas, la supuesta entrada de México al prestigioso club del primer mundo, la llegada de un régimen global, democrático y multicultural. Sergio González Rodríguez, célebre por analizar la violencia que se desató en nuestro país tras la ruptura de cada una de estas ilusiones, nos ofrece en este libro la memoria franca y personalísima de esos días que sellaron un milenio--Page 4 of cover.

"Comprehensive listing of nearly 1,000 printed works from Mexico City includes bandos, constitutions, regulations, sermons, and reports of festivities"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.