Of course some will say that the best book on the Mexican Revolution is John Reed (Mexico Insurgent) in Maspero ... John Reed friend Villa was a convinced Communist and this is the only American buried in the Kremlin (during Cold War surplus); Yet this book of great and eternal Alejo Carpentier (which we will highlight the magnificent "the watershed line") provides here an essential work on the fate whose successive warlords and little tender did a magnificent corrupt countries the hope of a Republic that then led to immorality in the depths of mediocrity against a generous people. It is true that these general operetta but trigger-happy, succeeded to priests who were self-proclaimed "general" placed in power General Santa Anna (the hero of the Alamo, then losing in San Jacinto where he lost a leg ... he did buried). But to paraphrase Garcia-Marquez, Latin America in its truth than fiction; and this is precisely what Carpentier described here perfectly.
