Mexico Under Siege: Popular Resistance to Presidential Despotism

"Mexico Under Siege" is a readable and well-informed political history covering the period from the ruling PRI's lurch to the right in 1940 through to its eventual departure from office in the elections of 2000. Based on two decades of interview material and new documentary sources, this book is the first to consider the full panorama of popular resistance to the alliance between the Mexican state's bureaucracy, the president, and the business class.