La real historia de México

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.

Narrative extends only to the close of 1828, having been left incomplete at the death of the author. -- cf. Advertencia al lector, 1 leaf at end.

Con las fotos inigualables de Nacho L pez, recobramos Para la memoria c mo era la vida de la ciudad de M xico en los a os cincuenta y principios de los sesenta. la urbe captada por la lente de L pez exhibe a sus hijos, ciudadanos capitalinos qu micamente puros que la viven de d a y de noche, gast ndola, sufri ndola y rehaci ndola Para que no los desconozca.

"Nine critical essays by well-known authors (González Casanovas, De la Peña, Eduardo Menéndez, and others) examine role of government and public policies during 1980s. Some issues include health, education and technology policies, Church-State relations, political transformation toward modernization, and new political culture"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.