Nuño de Guzmán

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.

An order from the King, directed to all government officials in New Spain, Peru, and New Granada, which demands that each official work towards the promotion of the cultivation of tobacco in their respective territory.

1888, pt. 2, includes meteoroloical observations reported from the Observatorio Meteorológico-Magnético de Central Mexico, for the years 1877-1888.

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.