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This program focuses on the six-year term of Miguel AlemánValdés, one that featured both corruption and decline in political liberties, but was also accompanied by economic expansion and enormous growth of Mexico City, as well as an improvement in relations with the United States.

This program focuses on the six-year presidency of Lazaro Cárdenas, one of the most vigorous periods of change in the history of modern Mexico, emphasizing both the welfare of the people and corporate interests. President Cárdenas is known for his sweeping agrarian and labor reforms, the reorganization of the party into the Party of the Mexican Revolution, for women's suffrage and the 1938 oil expropriation.

This program presents a biography of José López Portillo, a thinker, boxer and amateur painter whose childhood friendship would lead him to Los Pinos, the home of the Mexican presidency.

This program presents the six-year term of Luis Echeverría, a lifetime bureaucrat who ascended to the presidency immediately following the Tlatelolco Massacre. Despite his efforts to enact populist economic and political reforms, he was blamed for the Tlatelolco massacre by those on the left, while he antagonized the business community and conservatives. Economic instability created tensions that erupted in protests repressed by the military.

This program presents a biography of Lázaro Cárdenas, the most charismatic president in modern Mexican history, who joined the Revolution at fourteen years and subsequently became one of its youngest generals.

This program details the rise of Vicente Guerrero, one of Mexico's most prominent military leaders, who joined with another leader, Agustin de Iturbide, to end Mexico's War of Independence from Spain. Part 1 addresses Guerrero's bravery and early experience as a traveling mule train driver that benefitted the militia he joined and the insurgent Army of the South. He rose in command as insurgent leaders like Hidalgo, Morelos and Galeana were killed....

This program tells the story of Venustiano Carranza, a socially progressive leader during the second phase of the Mexican Revolution, who guided Mexico through its 1917 Constitution during his Presidency.

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.