Memorias del Mestizaje: Cultura política en Centroamérica de 1920 al presente (review)
like Tlatelolco) the facts themselves would grab the reader from the opening chapter in which the exhilaration engendered by the defeat of the Partido Revolucionario Institucional pours off the page, to the final section that recounts the onset of disillusionment with Fox—whose principal contribution to history was getting himself elected. Of course Preston and Dillon are fortunate, in a way, to have ended their work as correspondents as well as their book with the August 2000 election. This is because the Fox sexenio was a lot less thrilling than the Fox victory, and nothing about the contested presidential election outcome in 2006 would arouse much hope that the process of transition to democracy, which is the theme of this book, has continued at the same encouraging pace.