Mexico Politics

La periodista Luciana Wainer nos presenta en este libro la otra cara de la criminalización del aborto en México. Aquí documenta y reconstruye, a través de testimonios, entrevistas, expedientes y datos, las historias de cinco mujeres: Dafne, Susana, Aurelia, Malena e Imelda, encarceladas tras un aborto espontáneo, un parto fortuito, una emergencia obstétrica, y sentenciadas a condenas severas por homicidio u homicidio en razón de parentesco.

Javier Valdez ofrece un libro impactante que va del reportaje a la crónica para rescatar del silencio, de la nota roja y del olvido, a numerosas mujeres que viven entre las balas momentos cruciales de su vida. Amantes de capos, amigas de ellos o familiares, son mujeres con una verdad ardiente y dolorosa, que buscan el glamour y la hermosura, el poder económico y la huida de su realidad; mujeres que viven en el límite de la ley, la violencia y de la muerte.

A major work on the history of Mexicans in Texas and the relations between Mexicans and Anglos.

El libro revela el Amor Universal y Cósmico del Sendero Rojo. El Sendero Rojo es la filosofía/cosmovisión/religión de las tribus/pueblos indígenas nativos de América del Norte y del Sur. Esta cosmovisión promueve la integración con la Madre Tierra y el cosmos para lograr la armonía dentro de la Existencia en eterna evolución.

The book reveals the universal and cosmic love of the Red Road. The Red Road is the philosophy/worldview/religion of the native Indian tribes/pueblos of North and South America. This worldview promotes integration with Mother Earth and the cosmos to achieve harmony within eternally evolving existence. Using the Chicano as an example, the book explores the human lifetime as a cosmic being with eternal cycles of reincarnation and integration. This cosmic journey is examined from the perspective of the Red Road.

Gustavo Arellano has compiled the best questions about Mexican Americans from readers of his ¡Ask a Mexican!column in California's OC Weekly and uses them to explore the clichés of lowriders, busboys, and housekeepers; drunks and scoundrels; heroes and celebrities; and most important, millions upon millions of law-abiding, patriotic American citizens and their illegal-immigrant cousins who represent some $600 billion in economic power.

It wasn’t surprising when the first abandoned bicycles were found along the dirt roads and farmland just across the border from Tijuana, but before long they were arriving in droves. The bikes went from curiosity, to nuisance, to phenomenon. But until they caught the eye of journalist Kimball Taylor, only a small cadre of human smugglers - coyotes - and migrants could say how or why they’d gotten there. This is the story of 7,000 bikes that made an incredible journey and one young man from Oaxaca who arrived at the border with nothing, built a small empire, and then vanished.

While some have attempted to explain the cultural and religious significance of this cactus and drug, Alexander S. Dawson offers a completely new way of understanding the place of peyote in history. In this provocative new audiobook, Dawson argues peyote has marked the boundary between the Indian and the West since the Spanish Inquisition outlawed it in 1620.

Quieres caminar seguro por las calles, que tu voz sea escuchada y que puedas estar orgulloso de tus gobernantes. Ese México es posible, pero ¿de dónde hay que partir? De la participación ciudadana. Este audiolibro brinda un análisis meticuloso de lo que ha sucedido en las últimas décadas: del capitalismo voraz a las ocurrencias del régimen actual, y propone el camino para colocar los cimientos de un país con Estado de derecho, con ética y honestidad, con seguridad y con respeto a la propiedad privada.

Han colaborado con los cárteles y con el gobierno, han derrumbado y encumbrado capos, han alimentado y dinamitado la «guerra contra el narco»; son infiltrados, protegidos, impunes y han jugado el juego más peligroso de todos... Son los «espías antinarcóticos» de Estados Unidos y este libro narra su historia.

There may be no story today with a wider gap between fact and fiction than the relationship between the United States and Mexico. Through portraits of business leaders, migrants, chefs, movie directors, police officers, and media and sports executives, Andrew Selee looks at this emerging Mexico, showing how it increasingly influences our daily lives in the United States in surprising ways - the jobs we do, the goods we consume, and even the new technology and entertainment we enjoy.

When thinking about the border separating the United States from Mexico, what typically comes to mind is an unwelcoming zone with violent, poverty-ridden towns, cities, and maquiladoras on one side and an increasingly militarized network of barriers and surveillance systems on the other. It was not always this way. In fact, from the end of Mexican-American War until the late twentieth century, the border was a very porous and loosely regulated region.

The Border Patrol has grown exponentially, ICE detention centers have cropped up across the country, and the southern border is more militarized than ever before, but we are no safer. Instead, families are being ripped apart, undocumented people are living in fear, and thousands of migrants have died in detention or crossing the border. Taking listeners to the border patrol outposts, unmarked graves, detention centers, and halls of power, Sand and Blood is a frightening, essential story we ignore at our peril.

Un fantasma recorre México: el fantasma del neoliberalismo. Todas las fuerzas del actual gobierno han lanzado una cruzada contra ese fantasma: lo ven en las pasadas administraciones - panistas y priistas - en los medios de comunicación y las ong, en los científicos y la iniciativa privada.

Desde la Colonia y las tropelías de Hernán Cortés, hasta nuestros muyaciagos días de señores de las ligas, casas blancas, estafas maestras y presidentes impresentables, Juan Antonio Cepeda—especialista en corrupción y Estado de derecho—reconstruye elrompecabezas histórico, social, político y cultural de la corrupción en México para mostrar cómo hemos sido proclives a perpetuarla. Pero que hayamos privilegiado elgatopardismo por encima de una transformación genuina, nos dice, no significa que estemos condenados a padecerlo por siempre.

Da Karl Eskelund og hans trofaste rejsefælle og hustru, Chi-Yun, kommer til Mexico City, bliver de fordomme om mexicanerne, som har floreret blandt europæere i århundreder, udfordret. Byen er langt mere livlig og travl end de fleste andre storbyer, parret havde besøgt, og den byder på oplevelser, de aldrig havde forestillet sig at finde her. Karl Johannes Eskelund (1918-1972) var en dansk forfatter og journalist, der skrev en lang række reportager og bøger om sine rejser rundt om i verden.

In this comprehensive survey, updated for this new edition, Henderson explores the entire Maya cultural tradition, from the earliest traces of settlement through the period of the Spanish conquest in the 16th century. His wide-ranging account treats diverse aspects of the Maya world, from religion and philosophy to the environments of the various Maya peoples, using deciphered Maya texts to reconstruct the ancient societies.

To his contemporaries in Gilded Age Manhattan, Guillermo Eliseo was a fantastically wealthy Mexican, the proud owner of a luxury apartment overlooking Central Park, a busy Wall Street office, and scores of mines and haciendas in Mexico. But for all his obvious riches and his elegant appearance, Eliseo was also the possessor of a devastating secret: He was not, in fact, from Mexico at all. Rather, he had begun life as a slave named William Ellis, born on a cotton plantation in Texas during the waning years of King Cotton.

Las revelaciones de esta novela pueden cambiar el destino de México. ¿Por qué Pemex está en quiebra mientras el gobierno sigue adquiriendo petróleo de otros países? ¿Cuál es la realidad que se esconde tras la Reforma Energética? ¿Qué hilos mueven las decisiones del corporativo más poderoso y polémico de México? Atlas Skyberg y un grupo de jóvenes decididos a cambiar el futuro del país emprenden una peligrosa misión: entrar al edificio de Pemex y conseguir un archivo secreto que revelará las respuestas a todas estas preguntas.

In The Great Great Wall, architectural historian and critic Ian Volner takes a deep dive into the story of Donald Trump’s wall. Volner follows the conception, selling, design, and construction (or lack thereof) of this expensive and consequential barrier, giving listeners a detailed description of what’s happening in Washington, DC - and along the border. He also travels far afield, to China, the Middle East, northern England, and back to our border to examine the barriers we’ve been building for centuries.