Perpetuating Power: How Mexican Presidents Are Chosen

by Jorge G. Castañeda

Book Overview

Jorge Casta eda, who served as Mexico's foreign minister from 2000 to 2003, has been both an insider and an outsider in Mexico's political system. In Perpetuating Power, he lays bare the often mystifying workings of power in Mexico, offering readers what the New York Times Book Review called "an unusually revealing explication of the inner workings of three decades of presidential succession."

To outside observers, Mexico stood...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1565846168
• ISBN13: 9781565846166
• Release Date: December 2000
• Publisher: New Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

la herencia

this a good book and it shows how is mexico, it will never change, qndo how the friends were and are chosing themselves.

A must have for contemporary mexican politic followers

This is an excellent book for those who want to have a behind the scenes information by the protagonist themselves (the ex-presidents) of the last 24 years of modern day Mexico. The author's interviews with the last four presidents are really engaging no matter what image or personal opinion you have about any of this four ex- presidents, this chats that the author made will confirm some of the secrets that are heard almost everywhere about the presidential institution in Mexico and its context. You may agree or disagree, or you may love them or hate them, but the really interesting part would be hearing first hand what do they say about their presidency and the context it involved. Sometimes you even want to debate some of their ideas and sometimes you even may empathy with the man but you wont stay indiffrent. An engaging book, only gave it four stars just because only one of the surviving presidents was missing, and that is the one in power. Nevertheles this book its a testimony of some of the ideas and events behind the men that we call "Presidente".