Overview
En este primer volumen de la Tragicomedia mexicana, que comprende de 1940 a 1970, tenemos los grandes acontecimientos políticos, los modos del “tapadismo” y del fraude electoral, las leyes no escritas del sistema, los laberintos obreros y agrarios, el fortalecimiento de los empresarios, la industrialización, el desarrollo estabilizador, la penetración paulatina e invencible de Estados Unidos en casi todos los ámbitos del país, la eterna carestía, las protestas populares y la correspondiente represión, las estrellas de cine, los espectáculos y el deporte, el surgimiento y el predominio aplastante de la televisión, las grandes celebridades, la vida social, el mambo, el chachachá y el rocanrol, los rebeldes sin causa, las minifaldas, los jipis, las mafias culturales, la vida intelectual, el movimiento estudiantil y el fin del sueño del “milagro mexicano”.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
A country’s x-ray.
In this first volume of Mexican Tragicomedy, which spans from 1940 to 1970, we find major political episodes, the cover-ups known as tapadismo and electoral fraud schemes, the unwritten laws of the system, working-class and agrarian labyrinths, the strengthening of businessmen, industrialization, a stabilizing development, the United States’ gradual and relentless indentation in almost every aspect of the country, the everlasting scarcity, people’s protests and their corresponding repressions, movie stars, shows and sports, the emergence and overwhelming predominance of television, big celebrities, social life, mambo, cha-cha, rock ‘n’ roll, rebels without a cause, miniskirts, hippies, cultural mafias, intellectual life, student activism, and the end of the dream known as the “Mexican miracle.”
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