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Oppenheimer, Andres Bordering on Chaos: Guerrillas, Stockbrokers, Politicians, and Mexico's Road to Prosperity
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A. Little Brown & Company 1996 0316650951 / 9780316650953 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Fine
Near-new condition. Stated First Edition. NO remainder marks or price clippings - Tight spine - Bright pages. Illustrated. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. 367 pages. From the Publisher Mexico's growing pains in the era of NAFTA and globalization have been singularly acute and dramatic: a guerrilla uprising, the assassination of political leaders, revelations of high-level corruption, economic collapse, and a $50 billion bailout. Bordering on Chaos is an unrivaled account of the headline-making events that have threatened Mexico's social, political, and economic stability. It is essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand Mexico today - when, more than ever before, what happens in Mexico directly affects the U.S. national interest. From The Critics Publishers Weekly Miami Herald Latin American correspondent Oppenheimer traveled all over Mexico between 1992 and 1995, and this crisply written, eye-opening report depicts a country in the throes of political turmoil, corruption, peasant rebellions and massive layoffs. The authors, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1987 as part of a team that uncovered the Iran-Contra scandal, scaled guerrilla-held mountains to interview self-styled Subcommander Marcos, the white, middle-class Marxist revolutionary who in 1994 led a Maya armed uprising in the southern state of Chiapas. Oppenheimer views this revolt as symptomatic of a country marked by vastly unequal distribution of wealth and wasteful public works projects that fail to address the real needs of the people. He offers disturbing, fresh slants on the ruling party's control of TV news, the booming cocaine trade of Mexico's drug mafias, the rise of government-backed monopolies in key industries and the recent political assassinations that have weakened the ruling elite's credibility. Despite this bleak picture, Oppenheimer suggests that Mexico is stumbling toward a modern democracy under its new, technocratic administrator president, Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon. Photos. Author tour. (Apr.) Library Journal Oppenheimer, who produced an insightful book on Fidel Castro (Castro's Final Hour, LJ 7/92), repeats his performance in this outstanding exploration of the most notable political events in Mexico in the last three years. The author has incisively examined the assassinations of presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio and Partido Revolucionario Institucional's secretary general Jos Ruiz Massieu, the arrest of Ral Salinas, the rise of Subcomandante Marcos and the Zapatistas, the devaluation crisis, and the extraordinary decline of ex-president Carlos Salinas de Gortari. Although many suppositions and incomplete facts about each remain, Oppenheimer, through careful investigation and firsthand interviews, provides convincing interpretations and even fresh, shocking factual information on each of these incidents, melding his analysis into a highly readable, entertaining account. Highly recommended. [Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 12/95.]-Roderic A. Camp, Latin American Ctr., Tulane Univ., New Orleans
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