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by Ana Lilia Pérez (Author)
Esta es la historia contemporánea de nuestro México saqueado.
Todo comenzó en los años ochenta, cuando el país se debatía en una crisis económica sin precedentes y optó por abrazar el modelo neoliberal como tabla de salvación. Una promesa de modernidad y prosperidad que, al intentar reducir la intervención estatal en la economía, dejó un rastro de intereses públicos pisoteados.
It all began in the 1980s, when the country was struggling with an unprecedented financial crisis and opted to embrace the neoliberal way as lifeline. A promise of modernity and prosperity that, by attempting to reduce government intervention in the economy, left a trail of trampled public interests. Ana Lilia Pérez tells the story and unmasks the characters that shaped it: political leaders, complicit officials, heirs to the bureaucratic elite, and unscrupulous businessmen. At the same time, she pulls the reader into those pillaging schemes: engineered leases, diverted resources, fraudulent structural reforms, and privatizations that only benefited a few. In their quest for power, claims the author, politicians from different parties accused each other of "destroying" the country, dodging the responsibility left as legacy by the administrations that arose from within their ranks. Their selective memory has but one purpose: to keep or take back their privileges. With these intentions, they speak of a country that has never existed. This work exposes the modus operandi behind the looting of the most precious resources in the country and reveals how those people who should have watched over our common welfare became the architects of their own fortunes. Thus, this book emerges as a map, illuminating the winding road that led us to be children of neoliberalism. And even more, it allows us to understand the roots of the corrupted system and marks the first steps towards the daunting task of dismantling it.
Author Biography
Ana Lilia Pérez (Ciudad de México) es escritora, periodista y profesora universitaria.
Sus artículos y reportajes se han publicado en numerosos medios de comunicación, como Esquire, CNN, Süddeutsche Zeitung (Alemania), La Jornada, El Financiero, Excélsior, Novedades, Milenio, Contralínea, Fortuna, Cambio, Variopinto y Newsweek en Español. Es autora de Camisas azules, manos negras (Grijalbo, 2010), El cártel negro (Grijalbo, 2011), Mares de cocaína (Grijalbo, 2014), Verdugos (Grijalbo, 2016) y Pemex RIP (Grijalbo, 2017). Entre otros reconocimientos, ha recibido el Premio Nacional de Periodismo, el Leipziger Medienpreis, la medalla Defensora de la Libertad y Promotora del Progreso y el Premio Golden Victoria 2015 de la Asociación de Editores de Diarios y Revistas Alemanas.
Number of Pages: 312
Dimensions: 0.82 x 8.98 x 5.99 IN
Publication Date: February 27, 2024
