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.

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.

El cronista fue amigo personal de Plutarco Elias Calles y conocio en detalle la realidad del poder desde el triunfo obregonista hasta el Maximato, por estas razones el texto es un fiel retrato de una epoca azarosa de la historia de Mexico.

Más allá de sus convicciones políticas, conozca al hombre, al ser humano, al esposo, al hermano y padre de dos niños. Reviva paso a paso su lucha, pensamientos y retos, hasta que oscuros intereses truncaron su carrera, en un lugar llamado Lomas Taurinas, donde quedara, quizá, el último balbuceo de una esperanza.