Very interesting, helpful in getting some initial handle on Mexico. Series
of biographies of leaders:
- Benito Juarez c. 1858; contemporary with Maximilian
- Porfirio Diaz – 40 years until Revolution in 1910 – inspired “no re-election”
- Francisco Madero – mysticism; Coahuila
- Emiliano Zapata – peasant, Morelos
- Francisco Villa – north
- Lazaro Cardenas – around and active until the ‘70s; flirtation with Communism, looks out for peasants
- Miguel Aleman – 1940s – associated with corruption, business/PRI ties
- 1968 – killing of students just prior to Olympics
