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Alcohol in Latin America
Aguardente, chicha, pulque, vino—no matter whether it’s distilled or fermented, alcohol either brings people together or pulls them apart. Alcohol in Latin America is a sweeping examination of the deep reasons why. This book takes an in-depth look at the social and cultural history of alcohol and its connection to larger processes in Latin America. Using a painting depicting a tavern as a metaphor, the authors explore the disparate groups and individuals imbibing as an introduction to their study. In so doing, they reveal how alcohol production, consumption, and regulation have been intertwined with the history of Latin America since the pre-Columbian era. Alcohol in Latin America is the...
Votes, Drugs, and Violence
When widespread state-criminal collusion persists in transitions from autocracy to democracy, electoral competition becomes a catalyst of large-scale criminal violence.
Muy Buenas Noches
By the end of the twentieth century, Mexican multimedia conglomerate Televisa stood as one of the most powerful media companies in the world. Most scholars have concluded that the company’s success was owed in large part to its executives who walked in lockstep with the government and the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI), which ruled for seventy-one years. At the same time, government decisions regulating communications infrastructure aided the development of the television industry. In one of the first books to be published in English on Mexican television, Celeste González de Bustamante argues that despite the cozy relationship between media moguls and the PRI, these connectio...
Radio in Revolution
An exploration of the interplay of early radio technology and state power in Mexico, especially during the rule of Porfirio Daiaz and the Mexican Revolution.
Delinquir sin castigo, la marca del sexenio. Primer semestre 2017 (Análisis Plural)
En México, la impunidad que se vive en el actual sexenio ha favorecido una agudización de la corrupción y la inseguridad, que explotaron en distintos frentes en el primer semestre de 2017. En lo económico, el aumento en el precio oficial de los combustibles provocó el auge de la venta ilegal. Por otro lado, la investigación, fuga y detención por abuso de poder, fraude y delincuencia organizada de exgobernadores se volvió pan de casi todos los días en el panorama político. Asimismo, ocho periodistas fueron asesinados en los primeros seis meses del año, con lo que se elevó a 45 el número en el sexenio y a más de cien desde el año 2000. (ITESO) p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 7.9px Arial}
