Guadalajara Reporter

The Mexican Constitution that today governs us (Mexican and foreigners), ratified February 5, 1917, was a surprising idealistic- and democratic-minded governing umbrella to have been born in the middle of a merciless and cynical Revolution that cost two million lives.  Though made of vulnerable material, that umbrella continues to shed convenient shade over sanguinary, culture-deep corruption.  At least this, to great extent, is the way it has been referred to by a number of government veterans, and a long list of Mexico’s most respected journalists, scholars and authors.  Carlos Fuentes for instance, whose most accessible novel, “The Death of Artemio Cruz,” is an instructive chronicle of the betrayal of the Revolution’s admirable goals.

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