Luis Donaldo Colosio

Escritor y diplomático mexicano. Dedicó a partir de la juventud buena parte de su vida al periodismo, primero en Guadalajara y luego en la ciudad de México, y desempeñó altos cargos diplomáticos durante el gobierno de Porfirio Díaz, en el que ejerció como Subsecretario de Relaciones Exteriores y, más adelante, como ministro plenipotenciario en Guatemala. Hombre de inquietudes intelectuales, ocupó un puesto destacado en los foros culturales de México y trató los asuntos más variados. Dejó escritas algunas obras en el terreno de la filología.

Guía a los documentos de (1) la Real Intendencia de Oaxaca, uno de los 12 distritos administrativos del Virreinato de Nueva España inici- ados en 1786, y (2) el Período de la Guerra de Independencia en Oaxaca. La mayoría de los documentos comprenden los años 1786- 1830.

This work contains fresh information located at the Sergei Eisenstein Museum and in his personal archive, both located in Moscow, which clearly indicates that there is still more to say about the Soviet director's unfinished movie, financed by Upton Sinclair. The discovery of the first version of the screenplay as well as books on Mexico and bullfight programs enables the manner in which the film developed and was structured through short stories to be reconsidered.

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.