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 enlarge | Author: Andres Oppenheimer
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 580924
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 416
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.5 x 1.2
ISBN: 0316650250
Dewey Decimal Number: 306.2
EAN: 9780316650250
ASIN: 0316650250
Publication Date: October 15, 1998
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 Investigative Reporting Is Just What Mexico Needs February 22, 2000
7 out of 9 found this review helpful
Andres Oppenheimer shared a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting on Iran-Contra. Normally, I find investigative reporting in the U.S. dull, since the reporters get wrapped up in the technical details of a subject like Whitewater and tend to miss the big picture. But the Woodward/Bernstein approach is exactly what Mexico needs. Oppenheimer's dug up scandals that are doozies -- a lengthy recounting of the "Billionaire's Banquet" in which 30 Mexican plutocrats pledged an average of $25,000,000 million US dollars each to fund the ruling party's 1994 re-election bid is a classic.
 Great book on the modern political state of Mexico July 20, 1999
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
I read this book as a person who has visited Mexico on a number of occasions for both business and pleasure. I found it to be highly informative and also entertaining. Having experienced firsthand the struggle of Mexicans to catch up with their wealthy neighbors across the border, while simultaneously putting up roadblocks in their own way, I had no trouble believing some of the outrageous political wheeling and dealing Mr. Oppenheimer described. A great book if you want to get insight into the modern Mexican political and economic climate.
 Cliche Anti-Communism November 7, 1998
7 out of 13 found this review helpful
The Author obviously travelled extensively in Mexico and talked to many people. In fact, he seems to support his work by the number of interviews he had. He has much of it right about Mexico - the corruption is amazing and does undermine the whole fabric of the country. This corruption is deep in the culture. I suspect it comes from the way the native population had to deal with the early Spanish to survive. Deceipt and corruption became a mode of survival. The Spanish means of governing presented an example of corruption for the population to follow - and they did. Where this book is weak and where the author undermines his own efforts and work is his old-fashioned attempt to show the rebels in the south are dangerous radicals. He constantly tries to discredit the Zapatistas as "Marxists." His scholarly talents are weak here - for example, he presents long quotes to show the rebels are Marxist-Leninist, but does not tell us the readers where he got the quotes. This is high school journalism at best. I suspect Mr. Oppenheimer is forced to do this to please his Miami newspaper bosses and readers. He has got to show his "anti-communism" or face criticism at home and at his job. This could have been a great book on Mexico. We need one badly. The author has it right when he cites Mexico as the most important country on earth to the U. S. So few see this and Mr. Oppenheimer deserves credit for bringing it to our attention.
A must for anyone who cares about corruption in Mexico October 9, 1998
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
The only way to learn about what really happens inside the corruption ravaged Mexican Political landscape is to read this book. Learn the truth from a man, who KNOWS LATIN AMERICA AND THE POLITICS OF MEXICO.
essential reading on our most complex border nation May 29, 1998
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Mr. Oppenheimer has talked to those outside and inside the government of Mexico to describe in careful detail the myopia and success of the PRI which has kept Mexico "stable" for seventy years but has looted the country in a form of political machismo that now affects the middle class which no longer applauds such audacious machismo. The Zapatista movement is particularly well detailed in both its true meaning and its sad hijacking by idealistic middle-class Marxists who have no more concern for the Mayas than does the PRI for the majority of the Mexicans. If one is to begin to understand Mexico one should begin with this book.
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