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A Mexican historian and journalist shows how history becomes biography and the integral role of Mexico's leaders in the events of the nineteenth century; explores the seven presidents of the revolutionary era of 1910-1940; and examines the nation's modern presidency....
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The concentration of power in the caudillo (leader) is as much a formative element of Mexican culture and politics as the historical legacy of the Aztec emperors, Cortez, the Spanish Crown, the Mother Church and the mixing of the Spanish and Indian population into a mestizo culture. Krauze shows how history becomes biography during the century of caudillos from the insurgent priests in 1810 to Porfirio and the Revolution in 1910. The Revolutionary era, ending in 1940, was dominated by the lives of seven presidents -- Madero, Zapata, Villa, Carranza, Obregon, Calles and Cardenas. Since 1940, the dominant power of the presidency has continued through years of boom and bust and crisis. A major question for the modern state, with today's president Zedillo, is whether that power can be decentralized, to end the cycles of history as biographies of power....
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¿Quien es Hugo Chavez: un combativo y avanzado lider politico, artifice del «socialismo del siglo xxi», o un estereotipado aprendiz de dictador, populista y palabrero? ¿Que es Venezuela: el laboratorio de la primera revolucion del nuevo milenio o una nacion que marcha, no sin resistencias civiles, hacia un duradero regimen autoritario? Para responder estas preguntas, y desmontar el mito mas reciente de la izquierda latinoamericana, Enrique Krauze nos entrega su libro mas insolito y rotundo. Insolito porque, ademas de la veta ensayistica ya reconocida en su autor, esta obra contiene varios registros: cronica periodistica, entrevista, coloquio, reflexion historica, retrato biografico, analisis politico. Rotundo porque es doble su naturaleza: brinda una vision amplia de la historia de Venezuela, al tiempo que participa decisivamente en el debate politico actual, siempre en contra del despotismo y a favor de las bondades de la democracia. No es exagerado afirmar que la lectura de este libro es una tarea impostergable para cualquier latinoamericano. Ya se sabe: en Venezuela se esta jugando, ahora mismo, el destino de todo el subcontinente....
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