Diego Enrique Osorno

El libro definitivo sobre 1994, el a o que marc la historia contempor nea de M xico y cuyas consecuencias a n seguimos viviendo. Tras el gran xito del documental transmitido a escala global por Netflix, Diego Enrique Osorno nos entrega un volumen con material que provoca en el lector una sensaci n de revelaci n al descubrir todo lo que no se dijo en la serie... sobre el EZLN, la mutaci n del narcotr fico, la crisis econ mica, los magnicidios de Colosio y Ruiz Massieu, etc tera. A partir de una estructura coral donde se entremezclan el poder, la rebeld a y la justicia como hilos conductores, el libro ofrece testimonios hist ricos que generar n una nueva y discusi n y afianzar n esta investigaci n sobre 1994 como un documento de referencia ineludible en los a os por venir. Incluye entrevistas in ditas que el autor tuvo recientemente con personajes clave de aquella poca, como Jos C rdoba Montoya, o el propio Ernesto Zedillo. Una clara muestra de que no se trata de simplemente del "libro del documental". ENGLISH DESCRIPTION The definitive book about 1994, the year that was the turning point in contemporary Mexican history and whose consequences we are still living with. After the great success of the worldwide Netflix documentary, Diego Enrique Osorno hands us a volume of material that incites in the reader a sensation of revelation upon discovering everything that wasn't told to us in the series... about EZLN, the drug trafficking mutation, the economic crisis, the assassinations of Colosio and Ruiz Massieu, etc. Based on a coral structure where power, rebellion, and justice intermix like a unifying thread, the book offers historic testimonies that will generate new discussion and consolidate this inquiry into 1994 as an inevitable reference document for years to come. It includes unedited interviews that the author recently did with key personalities of that time, like Jos C rdoba Montoya or Ernesto Zedillo himself. A clear sign that this isn't just any "documentary book."

With contributions from seven of Mexico's finest journalists, this is reportage at its bravest and most necessary - it has the power to change the world's view of their country, and by the force of its truth, to start to heal the country's many sorrows. Supported the Arts Council Grant's for the Arts Programme and by PEN PromotesVeering between carnival and apocalypse, Mexico has in the last ten years become the epicentre of the international drug trade. The so-called "war on drugs" has been a brutal and chaotic failure (more than 160,000 lives have been lost). The drug cartels and the forces of law and order are often in collusion, corruption is everywhere. Life is cheap and inconvenient people - the poor, the unlucky, the honest or the inquisitive - can be "disappeared" leaving not a trace behind (in September 2015, more than 26,798 were officially registered as "not located"). Yet people in all walks of life have refused to give up. Diego Enrique Osorno and Juan Villoro tell stories of teenage prostitution and Mexico's street children. Anabel Hernández and Emiliano Ruiz Parra give chilling accounts of the "disappearance" of forty-three students and the murder of a self-educated land lawyer. Sergio González Rodríguez and Marcela Turati dissect the impact of the violence on the victims and those left behind, while Lydia Cacho contributes a journal of what it is like to live every day of your life under threat of death. Reading these accounts we begin to understand the true nature of the meltdown of democracy, obscured by lurid headlines, and the sheer physical and intellectual courage needed to oppose it.