Mexico: From Montezuma to NAFTA, Chiapas, and BeyondBrassey's, 1996 - 227 páginas In this fascinating thousand-year history of America's controversial and rapidly changing neighbor, a leading expert on Latin America explains how Mexico's present and future flow directly from its past. Going well beyond analyses of recent crises, Mexico is an engrossing introduction to the Indian civilizations, the harsh rule of the Spaniards, social violence and revolution, and the country's mercurial relationship with the United States up to the present. |
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... president of Mexico , Luis Donaldo Colosio , was assassinated . Although the substitute PRI candidate won a surprisingly strong and relatively honest victory in August , this triumph was soon marred by the assassination of the head of ...
... president of Mexico , Luis Donaldo Colosio , was assassinated . Although the substitute PRI candidate won a surprisingly strong and relatively honest victory in August , this triumph was soon marred by the assassination of the head of ...
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... President Polk ordered Gen. Zachary Tay- lor to move the U.S. Army to Corpus Christi , Texas . Yet , President Polk still did not consider war with Mexico as in- evitable . In 1845 , he sent John Slidell , a Democratic politician from ...
... President Polk ordered Gen. Zachary Tay- lor to move the U.S. Army to Corpus Christi , Texas . Yet , President Polk still did not consider war with Mexico as in- evitable . In 1845 , he sent John Slidell , a Democratic politician from ...
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... President Salinas , may have been intended to warn those who want rapid reforms as well as government officials who are combating the narcotics trade in Mexico . When Mario Ruiz Massieu ( who was the deputy attorney general ) was asked ...
... President Salinas , may have been intended to warn those who want rapid reforms as well as government officials who are combating the narcotics trade in Mexico . When Mario Ruiz Massieu ( who was the deputy attorney general ) was asked ...
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Understanding Mexico | 3 |
Mexicos Natural Environment | 8 |
and Native Peoples | 9 |
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