Old Paradigms & New Openings in Latin America

Issue Date January 1992
Volume 3
Issue 1
Page Numbers 15-24
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About the Author

Enrique Krauze, a Mexican historian, has written numerous books, including Siglo de Caudillos, 1810–1910 (1994) and Mexico: Biography of Power (English translation published in 1997). He was the coeditor with Octavio Paz of the Mexican intellectual journal Vuelta and is currently the editor of a new journal, Letras Libres.

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