A New Time for Mexico - Hardcover

Fuentes, Carlos

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0374221707 ISBN 13: 9780374221706

Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1996

Synopsis

One of Mexico's most distinguished authors shares his observations on the current state of Mexico as its people struggle to make the transition to democratic politics and to overcome the tumultuous political, economic, social, and moral crises they face.

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Review:

This collection of essays by Carlos Fuentes, Mexican intellectual, man of letters, and erstwhile diplomat, seeks to place his country's current convulsive state in a wider historical perspective. He discusses the Mexican Revolution of 1910 as a liberating moment, counterbalanced by a tendency toward a centralized authoritarianism that created the monolithic ruling party, the Partido Revolucionario Institucional, or PRI. Fuentes considers that the PRI was a progressive force originally, but that it became corrupted by the Mexican ruling class' elevation of Anglo-American forms of government, and the application of "savage capitalism" to the detriment of the Mexican people. Fuentes also talks about recent events, including the assassination of his friend, Luis Donaldo Colosio, the PRI presidential candidate, and he includes an exchange with Subcommander Marcos, the Zapatista leader.

From the Back Cover:

"No one who is interested in Mexico, its past and its future, can afford to miss this brilliant book." (Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.)

About this edition

• Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0374221707
• ISBN 13: 9780374221706
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 216