As journalist Sam Quinones convincingly demonstrates, much of
Mexico was already changing before the July 2000 presidential
elections which ousted the PRI and presented the world with
President-elect Vincente Fox. Fox's victory marked the triumph of
another Mexico, a vital, energetic, and creative Mexico tracked by
Quinones for over six years.
"This side of Mexico gets very little press. . . . yet it is the
best of the country. . . . people who have the spunk to imagine
something else and instinctively flee the enfeebling embrace of PRI
paternalism. . . . newly realistic telenovellas show the gray
government censor that the country is too lively to abide his
boss's dictates. . . . Some twelve million Mexicans reside
year-round in the United States. . . . [so] the United States is
now part of the Mexican reality and is where this other side of
Mexico is often found, reinventing itself."--from the
introduction.
Quinones merges keen observation with astute interviews and
storytelling in his search for an authentic modern Mexico. He finds
it in part in emigrants, people who use wits and imagination to
strike out on their own. In poignant stories from north of the
border--about Oaxacan basketball leagues in southern California and
the late singing legend Chalino SAAA1/2nchez whose songs of drug
smugglers spurred the popularity of the narcocorrido--Quinones
shows how another Mexico is reinventing itself in America today.
But most of his stories are from deep inside Mexico itself. There a
dynamic sector exists. It is made up of those who instinctively
shunned the enfeebling embrace of the PRI's paternalism, including
scrappy entrepreneurs such as the Popsicle Kings of Tocumbo and
Indianmigrant farmworkers who found a future in the desert of Baja
California. Here, too, are true tales from ignored margins of
society, including accounts of drag queens and lynchings. From the
fringes of the country, Quinones suggests, emerge some of the most
telling and central truths about modern Mexico and how it is
changing.
"This book expands our knowledge of modern Mexico many times
over. Quinones unearths a wealth of material that has in fact gone
unnoticed or been hidden."--Professor Francisco Lomeli, University
of California, Santa Barbara
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