Mexico Politics

¡Basta! Land and the Zapatista Rebellion, by George Allen Collier (1999). Comprehensively studies the reasons and catalysts for the 1994 Zapatista uprising in Chiapas.
Bordering on Chaos: Mexico’s Roller Coaster Journey to Prosperity, by Andres Oppenheimer (1998). Examines the collapse of the peso and subsequent economic ups and downs in the aftermath of the political controversy surrounding former president Carlos Salinas de Gortari.
Opening Mexico: The Making of a Democracy, by Samuel Dillon and Julia Preston (2004). The two (married) NYT correspondents combine first-hand journalistic accounts of Mexico in its days after authoritarian rule.
The US and Mexico: The Bear and the Porcupine, by Jeffrey Davidow (2004). Former US ambassador to Mexico Davidow shares a recent recollection of his experiences with Mexico and foreign relations before and after the historic presidential race of 2000.

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