San Antonio College Library

This program presents a biography of Miguel de la Madrid. It depicts his early life, his father's assassination, and provides details on how his interest in economy and public administration helped him rise through the ranks of the PRI, under Presidents Echeverría and López Portillo, to become President of Mexico in 1982.

This program focuses on the six-year presidency of Carlos Salinas, the architect of the Free Trade Treaty and the champion of more liberal economic policy, which brought him acclaim at home and beyond the country's borders.

When the postwar boom began to dissipate in the 1960s, Mexico's middle classes awoke to an economically terrifying world. And following massacres of students at peaceful protests in 1968 and 1971, one-party control of Mexican politics dissipated as well. The ruling Party of the Institutional Revolution struggled to recover its legitimacy. This title tells the story of this profound change from state-led development to neo-liberalism, and from a one-party...

An insider perspective on contemporary Mexico, this text examines the meaning of democracy in the lives of working-class residents in Mexico City in 2002. It provides a detailed, bottom-up exploration of what men and women think about national and neighbourhood democracy.