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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.

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.

"Traces the political careers of two 'fundamental figures' of the Revolution, both of whom thought that Mexico's future lay in modernization through industrialization. Although Lombardo supported Alemán for the presidency in 1946, the 'bifurcation' soon took place as each had a different vision of the proper road to modernization"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58

El estudio de los problemas sociales de México, y en especial de la Revolución Mexicana, ha sido preocupación constante de Jesús Silva Herzog. En esta obra expone los momentos principales de este movimiento armado desde fines del Porfiriato hasta el régimen constitucional de Venustiano Carranza, destacando el trasfondo económico que determinó el cambio radical de la sociedad mexicana. El hacendísmo, con su formación de latifundios en detrimento de peones y de comunidades, las tiendas de raya, el ausentismo de los propietarios, son causas de malestar agrario: en las ciudades, la...