Guadalupe

En El nacimiento de las instituciones, Enrique Krauze recupera una de las historias más apasionantes del México contemporáneo: en los turbulentos años posteriores a la Revolución, cuando se temía una invasión por parte de Estados Unidos, el presidente Plutarco Elías Calles emprendió una vasta obra de reconstrucción material e institucional. Hombres como Alberto J. Pani, Luis Montes de Oca, Manuel Gómez Morin, Moisés Sáenz y Gonzalo Robles, entre otros, se encargaron de realizar esa obra creativa con tiempo limitado y pocos recursos, pero también con claridad, profesionalismo y...

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El volumen hace alusion a las independencias iberoamericanas en el subtitulo porque son ellas las que marcan un hito en las visiones que las elites regionales lanzan sobre el pasado con vistas al futuro, pero en una operacion que busca cimentar su poder en el presente. Ellas, las guerras de independencia y los procesos inmediatos que les siguen, son el punto de partida de la "historia nacional" y la relacion de esa historia nueva con el pasado colonial sera en muchos casos, como sabemos, materia prima de la disputa entre liberales y conservadores. Se trata de "estabilizar" el pasado, de...