Anales de la Secretaría de Comunicaciones y Obras Públicas

Primer estudio monográfico de la Revolución Mexicana, a través de fotografías tomadas entre 1910 y 1930. Son fotografías tomadas particularmente por fotógrafos mexicanos, descubriendo un gran número de profesionales -no sólo Agustín V. Casasola- que cubrieron el conflicto armado: Samuel Tinoco, Antonio Garduño, Manuel Ramos, Gerónimo Hernández, Amando Salmerón, Cruz Sánchez, Sara Castrejón, brothers Cachú, y Hugo Brehme entre otros.

Los de abjo treats what is perhaps the saddest period in modern Mexican history, a period of aimless slaughter when a whole nation was plunged into strife by leaders who had few clear ideas of what they were striving for. The reader shares the same disillusionment that the author himself must have felt as he met leader after leader whose revolutionary zeal was merely a disguise for base passions and desires.

"Se trata del problema de la expansión, la organización político-administrativa, militar y económica, la proyección demográfica y las tensiones que se originaron al norte de Nueva España."--Prólogo.

Sharply critical analysis of Mexico's recent round of ambitious structural reforms, particularly of oil industry and finance reforms, which author says show direct line of descent from 18th-century Bourbon reforms, politics of Porfirio Diaz and neoliberal ideals of Carlos Salinas de Gortari, historical antecedents vilified by many on left in Mexico. Author was Mexico's youngest elected governor and is currently serving in Congress.