San Antonio College Library

This book shatters many misconceptions about foreign investment in Latin America. Viewing the foreign investor as neither cruel oppressor nor friendly benefactor, Jonathan Brown shows that the dynamic growth of the Mexican oil industry resulted from both the infusion of external capital and Mexico's own economic restructuring - conditions similar to those under which free markets are today being revived throughout the hemisphere. Brown's voluminous...

Recounts the plight of a peasant who refuses to sell his land to the powerful oil companies which have taken over the region.