This Documentary shows the life of four third age prostitutes working at one of the most poor neighborhoods of Mexico City.

"Goldman's story of his emergence from grief five years after his wife's death, symbolized by his attempt to overcome his fear of driving in the city. Embracing the DF (Mexico City) as his home, Goldman explores and celebrates the city, which stands defiantly apart from so many of the social ills and violence wracking Mexico ... [and] sets out to try to understand the menacing challenges the city now faces ... [resulting in] an account of one of...

"Estas páginas ofrecen una panorámica impresionante de un territorio de intensos contrastes, donde conviven la belleza y la violencia, la gloria y la miseria; el misticismo de las misiones de la Colonia, la Santa de Cabora o Jesús Malverde; y las leyendas contemporáneas como Pedro Infante, el Jefe de Jefes, Juan Gabriel, Maquío--- Una región en el punto de mira, no solo por su compleja situación actual, sino también por el misterio que siempre...

A delightful depiction of the adventures, suffering, love affairs and difficulties of two Mexican Jewish girls in the early 1960s. They follow their separate paths toward marriage in defiance of tradition and their families' expectations.

"A rollicking debut book of essays that takes readers on a trip through the muck of American myths that have settled in the desert of our country's underbelly" -- "Early on July 16, 1945, Joshua Wheeler's great grandfather awoke to a flash, and then a long rumble: the world's first atomic blast filled the horizon north of his ranch in Alamogordo, New Mexico. Out on the range, the cattle had been bleached white by the fallout. Acid West, Wheeler's...

"Cielo Cruel es una novela generacional que narra el descubrimiento del deseo en tres mujeres. Como un viaje iniciático, el anhelo de conocer el mar será para Mar, la hija, un punto de encuentro entre la pasión y la lucidez de un despertar sensual. Con una mezcla entre culpa y placer, los días para Mar transcurrirán en poner a prueba su supuesto nombre de villana, destino que buscará quebrantar al lado de Alejo, un hombre menor que ella y que...

In the thick of Donald Trump's presidential campaign in 2016, and through the travel bans his administration issued in 2017, journalist Kelsey Freeman spent nine months interviewing Central American migrants in a shelter along the migrant path in central Mexico. Freeman interweaves these stories with research and anecdotes from her experiences to reveal the fundamental moral quandaries involved in contemporary migration - from the expanding gang violence...

"The Mexico Reader is a vivid and comprehensive guide to muchos M�exicos-the many varied histories and cultures of Mexico. Unparalleled in scope, it covers pre-Columbian times to the present, from the extraordinary power and influence of the Roman Catholic Church to Mexico's uneven postrevolutionary modernization, from chronic economic and political instability to its rich cultural heritage. Bringing together over eighty selections that include...