Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla

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.

El primer propósito de esta obra es elaborar una historia de la crisis estructural iniciada en México a principios de la década de los setenta y que perdura hasta la actualidad, a pesar de la instrumentación de distintas políticas para superarla.Se analiza entonces, la crisis del modelo de sustitución de importaciones durante los setenta; la reforma neoliberal iniciada a mediados de los años ochenta, así como la crisis de 1994-1995, punto de inflexión en la historia económica y política moderna de México, cuya gravedad se refleja en una generación de mexicanos marcada por el...

"Detailed documentation of the implementation of the Plan Nacional de Desarrollo for the years 1989-94. Contains sections on the goals of the plan, the methods of implementation, and an assessment of accomplishments. Also includes the extensive legislation surrounding the plan"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.

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