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The Story of Mexico's political rebirth, by two pulitzer prize-winning reporters "Opening Mexico" is a narrative history of the citizens' movement which dismantled the kleptocratic one-party state that dominated Mexico in the twentieth century, and replaced it with a lively democracy. Told through the stories of Mexicans who helped make the transformation, the book gives new and gripping behind-the-scenes accounts of major episodes in Mexico's recent politics. Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party, led by presidents who ruled like Mesoamerican monarchs, came to be called "the perfect dictatorship." But a 1968 massacre of student protesters by government snipers ignited the desire for democratic change in a generation of Mexicans. "Opening Mexico" recounts the democratic revolution that unfolded over the following three decades. It portrays clean-vote crusaders, labor organizers, human rights monitors, investigative journalists, Indian guerrillas, and dissident political leaders, such as President Ernesto Zedillo-Mexico's Gorbachev. It traces the rise of Vicente Fox, who toppled the authoritarian system in a peaceful election in July 2000. "Opening Mexcio" dramatizes how Mexican politics works in smoke-filled rooms, and profiles many leaders of the country's elite. It is the best book to date about the modern history of the United States' southern neighbor-and is a tale rich in implications for the spread of democracy worldwide.

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• Plný název: Opening Mexico
• Podnázev: The Making of a Democracy
• Autor: Samuel Dillon, Julia Preston
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Vazba: Brožovaná
• Počet stran: 592
• EAN: 9780374529642
• ISBN: 0374529647
• ID: 11405953
• Nakladatelství: Farrar Strauss & Giroux-3pl
• Hmotnost: 772 g
• Rozměry: 139 × 216 × 38 mm
• Datum vydání: 15. March 2005

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