Regarded as among modern Mexico s foremost creative writers, Octavio Paz, Carlos Fuentes, Carlos Monsivais, and Elena Poniatowska are also esteemed as analyzers of society, critics of public officials, and both molders and mirrors of public opinion. This book offers a reading of Mexican current affairs from 1968 to 1995 through a comparative study of these four writers political work. In hundreds of articles, essays, and comments published in the Mexican press Excelsior, La Cultura en Mexico, La Jornada, Proceso, and many other publications these writers tackled current affairs...
Regarded as among modern Mexico s foremost creative writers, Octavio Paz, Carlos Fuentes, Carlos Monsivais, and Elena Poniatowska are also este...
Mexico City's staging of the 1968 Olympic Games should have been a pinnacle in Mexico's post-revolutionary development: a moment when a nation at ease with itself played proud host to a global celebration of youthful vigour. Representing the Nation argues, however, that from the moment that the city won the bid, the Mexican elite displayed an innate lack of trust in their countrymen. Beautification of the capital city went beyond that expected of a host. It included the removal of undesirables from sight and the sponsorship of public information campaigns designed to teach...
Mexico City's staging of the 1968 Olympic Games should have been a pinnacle in Mexico's post-revolutionary development: a moment when a nation at e...
