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1) Government
Author
Series
Publisher
Hill and Wang
Pub. Date
[1971]
Language
English
Description
The story follows Don Gabriel, a bureaucratic official in an isolated government outpost in a remote village. He comes to oversee the enslavement of Indians and ships them off to forced labor on the mahogany plantations owned by foreign investors.
4) México: en la frontera del caos : la crisis mexicana de los noventa y la esperanza del nuevo milenio
Author
Publisher
Ediciones B
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
Español
Author
Publisher
OR Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Andrés Manuel López Obrador's (AMLO) stunning victory in the Mexican presidential election signals the end of decades of conservative government and the promise of fairer, more honest politics south of the Rio Grande. AMLO's landslide success was built on a campaign that pledged to tackle corruption, halt privatization of the energy industry, invest in education and infrastructure, open a dialogue with the country's drug cartels, and oppose Trump's...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
Español
Description
Ciudad Juárez, México, queda en la frontera sur del Río Bravo, frente a El Paso, Texas. Por más de doce años, aquí se ha llevado a cabo un sinnúmero de crímenes atroces contra mujeres y niñas que incluyen secuestros, violaciones, mutilaciones y asesinatos. Según Amnistía Internacional, para 2006, se habían encontrado más de 400 cadáveres, sin contar centenares de desaparecidas. Muchos creen que las muertes se deben a la violencia e impunidad...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Regina Martínez was no stranger to retaliation. A journalist out of Mexico's Gulf Coast state of Veracruz, Regina's stories for the magazine Proceso laid out the corruption and abuse underlying Mexican politics. She was barred from press conferences, and copies of Proceso often disappeared before they made the newsstands. In 2012, shortly after Proceso published an article on corruption and two Veracruz politicians, and the magazine went missing...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Mexico
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
"En esta investigación se ahonda en las relaciones que mantuvo durante dos sexenios el encargado de la inteligencia del Estado mexicano y de la seguridad pública del pais, y que alcanzaron el grado de fraternidad con los principales capos de las drogas, los que en teoria, eran sus objetivos de captura. Tras una minuciosa revisión documental y testimonial, de expedientes criminales y de actores del narcotráfico, en este trabajo periodistico se...
Author
Publisher
Verso
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"The definitive account of the mass disappearance of 43 Mexican students and the government that tried to cover it up. On September 26, 2014, 43 male students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers' College went missing in Iguala, Guerrero, Mexico. According to official reports, the students commandeered several buses to travel to Mexico City to commemorate the anniversary of the 1968 Tlatelolco Massacre. During the journey, local police intercepted the...
Publisher
MacLehose Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"With contributions from seven of Mexico's finest journalists, this is reportage at its bravest and most necessary - it has the power to change the world's view of their country, and by the force of its truth, to start to heal the country's many sorrows. Supported the Arts Council Grant's for the Arts Programme and by PEN Promotes. Veering between carnival and apocalypse, Mexico has in the last ten years become the epicentre of the international drug...
