Antología de la planeación en México, 1917-1985

"Juan Caballero es contratado para rescatar a un niño, heredero de una inmensa fortuna y, lo que prometía ser un caso fácil, se complica a cada momento ya que el investigador debe pedirle a los muertos que hablen, sin pasar a ser uno de ellos y buscar las claves en el tortuoso pasado de los involucrados. En esta azorosa travesía por el D.F., la gran ciudad nos parecerá otra"--P. [4] of cover.

Los de abjo treats what is perhaps the saddest period in modern Mexican history, a period of aimless slaughter when a whole nation was plunged into strife by leaders who had few clear ideas of what they were striving for. The reader shares the same disillusionment that the author himself must have felt as he met leader after leader whose revolutionary zeal was merely a disguise for base passions and desires.

Respected political scientists analyze role of electoral left in parliamentary policy and in construction of quality of government. Also broaches topic of organization of leftist groupings in party form. Written during 2018 presidential campaign when victory of leftist candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador was near certainty, proposes thesis that left became one of most powerful electoral forces in Mexico by dint of long years of struggle against repression and by tenacity to insert itself in new democratic order.