Luis Cabrera

�--Benditos seamos los mexicanos, de derrota en derrota hemos abierto las puertas de la victoria definitiva. Se inicia la era de la raz�n, nuestro Siglo de las Luces. --�Y por cu�nto tiempo? --pregunt� Guillermo Prieto, el airecillo rampl�n de la tarde le sacud�a la cabellera leonada. Ignacio Ram�rez, llamado por sus amigos y enemigos El Nigromante, dud�; durante un instante se mes� la dispareja barba de chivo. Prieto no lo dej� seguir pensando: --Perd�n por mi ataque de pesimismo. �Acaso importa? Un segundo de fulgor, diez minutos, dos a�os... Y luego a volver a...

This comprehensive review of rural policy in Mexico shows that the challenges and potential of rural areas are spatially differentiated and therefore require a place-based policy approach.

Author Alejandra Mora explores a fascinating aspect of vernacular photography: the "amplifications in cloth", a long field research that started in the town of San Pablo Huitzo, Etla, Oaxaca, and spanned all the way into Mexico City with the intention of locating the creators of such unique portraits, who using new technologies have managed to satisfy customer demands. Illuminated images that satisfied the popular beauty conceptions of the body, hairstyles, fashion and jewelry, including the wedding photography.

1888, pt. 2, includes meteoroloical observations reported from the Observatorio Meteorológico-Magnético de Central Mexico, for the years 1877-1888.