Opening Mexico: The Making of a Democracy

Two Pulitzer Prize–winning reporters deliver "a gripping and insightful history of Mexico's democratic transition" (Daniel Kurtz Phelan, The Washington Post).

Opening Mexico is a narrative history of the citizens' movement which dismantled the kleptocratic one-party state that dominated Mexico in the twentieth century, and replaced it with a lively democracy. Told through the stories of Mexicans who helped make the transformation, the book gives new and gripping behind-the-scenes accounts of...