Opening Mexico
Subtitle: the making of a democracy
By: Julia Preston and Samuel Dillon
Contributors: Dillon, Sam
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 592
ISBN-13: 9780374226688; 9780374529642
Subjects: Politics and government; Politicians; Politieke bewegingen; Politieke partijen; Democracy; Democratisering; Biography
Description: Examines the citizen's movement in Mexico that dismantled the one-party state and is re-energizing politics in the country--a coalition of election reformers, labor organizers, human rights monitors, and journalists.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [519]-570) and index.
Table of contents: title: The day of the change; title: From disorder to despotism; title: Tlatelolco, 1968; title: Earthquake, 1985; title: Chihuahua, 1986; title: 1988; title: Ernesto Zedillo, the outsider; title: Raúl; title: The general and the drug lord; title: Testing change; title: The earcutter; title: Opening minds; title: Chiapas; title: Democracy at work; title: Campaign for change.