Mexican Shock

Its Meaning for the United States

Häftad, Engelska, 1996

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Beskrivning

One of the most trenchant critics of the Latin American scene and American foreign policy, Jorge G. Castañeda has been hailed as the "leading Mexican voice in the U.S. media" (In These Times). In The Mexican Shock Castañeda examines the major issues in Mexico in recent years and their effects on the United States: emigration, the relationship between politics and economics, the assassination of presidential candidate Luis Colosio, and the rapid devaluation of the peso. He also explores the United States's changing perceptions of Mexico and the historical and cultural outlooks that still divide the two countries. Finally, he examines the campaign behind Proposition 187 in California, discussing the dangerous mix of ignorance and bias that has formed so much of America's reaction to Mexico.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1996-11-14
Mått:139 x 208 x 20 mm
Vikt:368 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:288
Förlag:The New Press
ISBN:9781565843127

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Jorge G. Castañeda is a Mexican politician and academic who served as Mexico's secretary of foreign affairs from 2000 to 2003. He worked as a professor at several universities, including the National Autonomous University of Mexico; the University of California, Berkeley; Princeton University; New York University; and the University of Cambridge. He has authored more than a dozen books, including Ex Mex: From Migrants to Immigrants, The Mexican Shock: Its Meaning for the United States, and Perpetuating Power: How Mexican Presidents Were Chosen, all published by The New Press. Castañeda regularly contributes to newspapers such as Reforma (Mexico), El País (Spain), the Los Angeles Times, and Newsweek.

Innehållsförteckning

Part 1 The United States and Mexico: Mexico and California - the paradox of tolerance and democratization; the Mexican difference; can NAFTA change Mexico? - the risk of free trade. Part 2 When Mexico lost its charm - a memoir of 1994: NAFTA and the succession; the Chiapas surprise; Colosio, Cardenas, and the not-so-great debate; an expected and frustrated transition; anticlimax - the elections of August 21, 1994; after the elections and before the collapse; the December debacle. Part 3 The United States and Latin America: democracy and inequality in Latin America - a tension of the times.