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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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La resistencia silente, sustentada sobre voces y gestos rastreables, configura la conflictividad en Galicia durante los dos primeros decenios del franquismo. El estereotipo de un entorno sumiso y afín al régimen se desdibuja ante la proyección de actitudes comunitarias de conflicto. Ana Cabana indaga en este libro las formas de disenso que son activadas durante este periodo por la población rural y configuran un marco de identidad colectiva reconocible, coherente y protector de un modo de vida y un orden propios. Los testimonios de naturaleza archivística u oral, retazos de memoria...

Fernando del Paso tells his work experience as a translator, radio announcer and producer of radio shows of the Latin-American service of the BBC before and after the conflict between the United Kingdom and Argentina for the Falkland Islands. It reflexs upon the posture taken from both countries in front of the international community for the rightful sovereignty of the islands and the censorship measures about the subject in the media.