Manana Forever?

Mexico and the Mexicans

By: JORGE G. CASTANEDA

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Paperback | 17 April 2012 | Edition Number 1

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In this shrewd and fascinating book, the renowned scholar and former foreign minister Jorge Castañeda sheds much light on the puzzling paradoxes of politics and culture of modern Mexico.

Here’s a nation of 110 million that has an ambivalent and complicated relationship with the United States yet is host to more American expatriates than any country in the world. Its people tend to resent foreigners yet have made the nation a hugely popular tourist destination. Mexican individualism and individual ties to the land reflect a desire to conserve the past and slow the route to uncertain modernity. Castañeda examines the future possibilities for Mexico as it becomes more diverse in its regional identities, socially more homogenous, its character and culture the instruments of change rather than sources of stagnation, its political system more open and democratic. Mañana Forever? is a compelling portrait of a nation at a crossroads.

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"This important book, by an exceptionally shrewd, sophisticated and deeply knowledgeable analyst, deserves a place on the short shelf of classics about modern Mexico that includes Alan Riding's Distant Neighbors and Paz's The Labyrinth of Solitude." --Los Angeles Times

"Castaneda presents an impassioned and erudite case for a rethinking of old Mexican habits. His background makes him especially well positioned to explain his native land to an international audience." --The New York Times Book Review

"A revolutionary book about Mexico. . . . I never thought I would read a book by a Mexican that acknowledges that Mexicans have more to gain in venturing to America than U.S. dollars." --Richard Rodriguez, The San Francisco Chronicle

"A lively and perceptive analysis of Mexican society. . . . [Castaneda] is an unusual and important voice in Mexico." --The Economist

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Acknowledgments	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
Why Mexicans are Lousy at Soccer and Don't Like Skyscrapers	p. 3
At Last: A Mexican Middle Class	p. 34
Victims and Enemies of Conflict and Competition	p. 68
Finally Mexican Democracy	p. 101
The Power of the Past and the Fear of the Foreign	p. 124
At Last: An Open Society, an Open Economy an Open Mind?	p. 154
Illusory Laws, Lawless Cynicism	p. 181
The Law of the Land, or the Land of the Law?	p. 206
The Future in Real Time	p. 237
Notes	p. 263
Index	p. 281
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