Opening Mexico: The Making of a Democracy – $280
by rgonzalezr
Preston and Dillon, former Mexico bureau chiefs for the New York Times, combine personal experience and journalistic accounts in this thoughtful report on the trials of Mexico’s turbulent first taste of democracy after decades of authoritarian rule. With grace and candor, the authors capture this transitional period, which has been characterized by a slow and tense crumbling of Mexico’s main political party, the PRI (a victim of its own incompetence and hubris), and a rapid increase in civic fervor. This […]
Categories: Historia, Periodismo • Tags: Democracy, Dillon, Farrar, New York Times, Opening Mexico, Preston, PRI, Pulitzer, Recent history of Mexico, Strauss & Giraud