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Children Today
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Mexican Political Biographies, 1935-2009
"Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies."
The Little Old Lady Killer
The surprising true story of Mexico’s hunt, arrest, and conviction of its first female serial killer For three years, amid widespread public outrage, police in Mexico City struggled to uncover the identity of the killer responsible for the ghastly deaths of forty elderly women, many of whom had been strangled in their homes with a stethoscope by someone posing as a government nurse. When Juana Barraza Samperio, a female professional wrestler known as la Dama del Silencio (the Lady of Silence), was arrested—and eventually sentenced to 759 years in prison—for her crimes as the Mataviejitas (the little old lady killer), her case disrupted traditional narratives about gender, criminality, ...
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The Fight to Save Juárez
“A deeply reported, razor smart, up-close account of the Great Drug War . . . Absolutely courageous in its fairness and search for answers.” —William Booth, Washington Post Bureau Chief for Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean The city of Juárez is ground zero for the drug war that is raging across Mexico and has claimed close to 60,000 lives since 2007. Almost a quarter of the federal forces that former President Felipe Calderón deployed in the war were sent to Juárez, and nearly twenty percent of the country’s drug-related executions have taken place in the city, a city that can be as unforgiving as the hardest places on earth. It is here that the Mexican government came t...
Mexico's Political Awakening
A bottom-up perspective on democratization, correcting analyses that view the process in Mexico as flowing down from the President. The author challenges existing theories by stressing the importance of strong social institutions for the development of democracy.
Ahora es cuándo
La vida política de Carlos Medina Plascencia estuvo antecedida por una rica trayectoria que dio forma a su carácter y a sus posteriores acciones públicas. En este libro conocemos esos hechos, encontramos a la figura real que comparte con nosotros apuntes biográficos y anecdóticos para explicar el porqué de su propuesta para México y también su visión del país a lo largo de los años. El presente volumen representa un acercamiento inédito a un personaje que reconocemos fácilmente, pero cuya personalidad y propósitos profundos se nos revelan hasta ahora, gracias a una perspectiva personal, siempre sincera y aleccionadora. Las páginas de Ahora es cuándo no se reducen, sin embargo...
