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  • A Gathering of Fugitives:American Political Expatriates in Mexico 1947-1965(544 clicks)
    A book by Diana Anhalt in pdf format. Leftist ex-patriates in Mexico.
  • Adolfo López Mateos(2548 clicks)
    Andrea Holland's short biography of the president from 1958-64. López Mateos brought the world's attention to Mexico.
  • Andrew Reding, The Next Mexican Revolution(1652 clicks)
    Prophetic article from the World Policy Journal, Fall 1996, heralding the rise of President Vicente Fox.
  • Before Democracy: Memories of Mexican Elections(914 clicks)
    The PRI and fraud
  • Changing Models of Mexican Politics: A Review Essay [1976](2351 clicks)
    Historiography of American writings on Mexican politics since 1945, noting the extent to which many of the scholars accepted the government's views.
  • Documents on Mexican Politics(1554 clicks)
    Archive of essays on Mexican politics.
  • Double Dealing:Mexico's Foreign Policy Toward Cuba(954 clicks)
    Mexico played a double game by giving info to the US about Cuba while refusing to break relations with Cuba.
  • Electoral Reform in Mexico's Hegemonic Party System:(21 clicks)
    Joseph L. Klesner, Kenyon College. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C., 28-31 August 1997
  • Face to Face With the Military in Chiapas, Mexico(1409 clicks)
    By Marc Becker
  • George Baker, Chiapas Diary(2019 clicks)
    Baker, a scholar and consultant, was in Mexico when the rebellion began in Chiapas in January, 1994. He made notes. Interesting account from one who has a lot of experience in Mexico.
  • Harry Cleaver, The Uses of an Earthquake(1223 clicks)
    The political consequences of the government's mishandling of the crisis caused by the 1985 earthquake.
  • High Hopes, Baffling Uncertainty(1296 clicks)
    The election that brought Miguel de la Madrid's successor to power was clearly fraudulent. On July 6, 1988, when the first results began to arrive at the interior ministry's office on Avenida Bucareli, a shockingly high proportion was marked for the main opposition candidate. He was Cuauhtemoc Cárdenas, son of former President Lázaro Cárdenas, the most left-wing and, along with Benito Juárez, the most honest president in Mexican history.
  • José López Portillo(24 clicks)
    Obit, The New York Times February 18, 2004, of controversial president
  • José López Portillo and the Crash of 1976(760 clicks)
  • LITEMPO: The CIA's Eyes on Tlatelolco(507 clicks)
    CIA Spy Operations in Mexico. National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 204
  • Manuel Avila Camacho(2439 clicks)
    By Lindon Ratliff
  • Mexico's 1968 Massacre: What Really Happened?(269 clicks)
    NPR PODCAST
  • Mexico: 1995 Presidential Cabinet(1070 clicks)
    List.
  • Money, Murder & Mexico(1899 clicks)
    The rise and fall of the Salinas brother. A Frontline production
  • Nixon on Echeverría(508 clicks)
    The Nixon Tapes: Secret Recordings from the Nixon White House on Luis Echeverría and Much Much More by Kate Doyle (kadoyle@gwu.edu)
  • Notes on Manuel Avila Camacho and Miguel Alemán(827 clicks)
    Brief notes on the presidencies of Manual Avila Camacho and Miguel Alemán.
  • Octavio Fernández recuerda(710 clicks)
    Fascinating interview in Spanish
  • Odon de Buen, Remarks on Chiapas(889 clicks)
    Analysis.
  • Official Report of Mexico's "Dirty War"(534 clicks)
    Government Acknowledges Responsibility for Massacres, Torture, Disappearances and Genocide National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 209 Posted - November 21, 2006
  • Oil and Revolution in Mexico(481 clicks)
    Scholarly book by Jonathan Brown
  • Operation Intercept: The perils of unilateralism(743 clicks)
    This new Electronic Briefing Book on Operation Intercept -- the Nixon government's unilateral attempt in 1969 to halt the flow of drugs from Mexico into the United States -- is the second to appear based on a collaboration between Proceso magazine and the National Security Archive and launched on March 2, 2003.
  • Partido Accion Nacional(1187 clicks)
    Long in opposition, the party now has the Mexican presidency.
  • PRI Victory?(883 clicks)
    George Baker and Alfonso Galindo examine the multi-facted nature of the Partido Revolucionario Institucional.
  • Report Documents 18 Years of "Dirty War" in Mexico(578 clicks)
    Special Prosecutor: State Responsible for Hundreds of Killings, Disappearances
  • The 1968 Mexican Student Movement(1718 clicks)
    Short analysis of what happened. A more comprehensive examination of this and other student movements can be found in Donald J. Mabry, The Mexican University and the State: Students Conflicts, 1910-1971 (College Station, Texas A&M University Press, 1982).
  • The Corpus Christi Massacre, 1971(988 clicks)
    The Corpus Christi Massacre Mexico's Attack on its Student Movement, June 10, 1971 by Kate Doyle (kadoyle@gwu.edu)
  • The Deconstruction Of Mexican Politics(1009 clicks)
    As anyone can say who has ever lived in Mexico--or anywhere in the Third World--there are always two subjects for discussion: The obvious subject is what's happening in Mexico (or whatever country it may be). A less obvious topic is how one comes to the questions and answers about what's happening in Mexico. This second topic, said differently, is, What has happened to me such that I've come to the questions and conclusions that I now want to discuss? A related question might be, What price have I had to pay, what enrichment--or compromise--of my personal values has taken place inside me?
  • The Political Network IN Mexico: Between Conflict and Stability(1047 clicks)
    Paper by Samuel Schmidt, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Texas at El Paso
  • The Story of Carlos Salinas(1750 clicks)
    Bryan Norman looks at the sad story of Mexico's president from 1988 to 1994.
  • The Turning Point of the PRI: An Analysis of the 1988 Presidential Election in Mexico(1739 clicks)
    Louie Matrisciano analyzes the PRI and how it began to lose control in 1988.
  • Threads of Class at La Virgen(532 clicks)
    The Threads of Class at La Virgen: Misrepresentation and Identity at a Mexican Textile Mill, 1918–1935. CHRISTOPHER R. BOYER
  • Tlatelolco Massacre(939 clicks)
    TLATELOLCO MASSACRE: DECLASSIFIED U.S. DOCUMENTS ON MEXICO AND THE EVENTS OF 1968 By Kate Doyle Director, Mexico Documentation Project
  • World Policy Institute: Mexico(1817 clicks)
    Analytical articles and other resources
  • Writings of Subcommander Marcos of the EZLN(18 clicks)
    This is a partial collection of essays written by Sub Commadante Marcos, the main spokesperson for the EZLN in Chiapas, Mexico. This collection focuses on his more personal writings, there is also a page of EZLN communiques, some of which also bear his signature.
  • Zapatistas in Cyberspace(1716 clicks)
    "This website, therefore, contains both currently active connetions of various sorts as well as a "archive" of defunct sites and resources. It is a portal of sorts to one "space" of cyberspace, one piece of the emerging fabric of relationships that is challenging capitalist command and seeking alternative ways of being and relating, seeking to build new worlds, as the Zapatistas say. "
  • Zapatistas! Documents of the New Mexican Revolution(1107 clicks)
    "!Zapatistas! contains the full, English language text of every communique published (along with several that were not published, as well as many interviews, letters, and essays) from the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) from December 31, 1994 through June 12, 1994."