Las voces de la ciudad

La ciudad se ha congelado. El movimiento del 68 vive su dolorosa derrota. Néstor Roca en un hospital de la Ciudad de México, llama a sus héroes de la infancia para derrocar al gobierno de Díaz Ordaz, y a su llamado llegan Sherlock Holmes, Sandokán con Yáñez, los tres mosqueteros, los lanceros de Balaclava, los Mau Mau, Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, el sabueso de los Baskerville y Dick Turpin. Será el duelo definitivo, mientras el terrible año de la derrota, 1969 sigue corriendo y desde Lecumberri José Revueltas nos cuenta un motín de presos políticos y el propio Taibo reportero, el...

"Isabela Huffman is a precocious 8 1/2-year-old girl who can't seem to keep herself out of trouble on a visit to Guanajuato, Mexico, with her mother. She wants to be the president when she grows up. Or a ballerina. Or the president and a ballerina. She's dramatic. She sings on the bus, screams like a baby after putting chile powder on her fresh mango and convinces her mom to buy five pair of new shoes for a big family. No matter how many times her mom asks her to just sit down like a normal little girl, she just can't help getting up to take more pictures of her adventures. When will Isabela...

This anthological edition is a well-deserved tribute on the life work of Bostelmann (b. Mexico), one of Mexico's most noted late 20th century photographers. This photographic retrospective presents his striking b/w photographs of desolated and rainy places, nude figures, the town of Cuetzalan, political meetings, children and his ironic color series (CrÑnica de familia, la vida en breve, gallo). Bostelmann was against what he called the "current use and abuse of digital elements" to enhance photography.

"Examines Madero's economic ideas and his approach to various economic issues, including labor-management relations, agrarian reform, and fiscal policy. Argues that Madero's economic policies fell somewhere between 19th-century Liberalism and a more modern interventionism"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.