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Dem crata por convicci n intelectual, arist crata por sus sentimientos, Marcelo T. de Alvear es una figura peculiar de la historia argentina. Esta obra traza una nueva imagen del dirigente radical y presidente de la Rep blica Argentina de 1922 a 1928. de sus p ginas surge una personalidad contradictoria y l cida, Para quien el radicalismo era parte de un proyecto de afianzamiento institucional de la Rep blica.

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Exclusive interviews with key political figures in Mexico—former presidents Zedillo and Salinas, and guerrilla leader Marcos—are the basis of this study that untangles the complex influences that have shaped Mexico over the past 20 years. From the Zapatistas to electoral fraud, this well-researched history accounts for many parts of Mexican politics and economy that have remained obscured by official silence. Beyond recurring catastrophes, however, this journalist finds the seed of a modern democracy in Vicente Fox's presidency, one which the author analyzes in a prologue added for this...

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