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020			_a9781568584249
050	0	0	_aF1386.3 _b.R67 2009
082	0	0	_aLAS 972.53 ROS
100	1		_aRoss, John _d, 1938-
245	1	3	_aEl Monstruo _b: dread and redemption in Mexico City _c/ John Ross
260			_aNew York _b: Nation Books _c, c2009.
300			_a494 p. _b: maps _c; 24 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aIntroduction: Welcome to El Monstruo -- The birth of a monstruo -- City of flowers & smoking hearts -- City of palaces & ghosts -- City of betrayed hopes -- City of order & progress -- City of the cannibal revolution -- City of artists & assassins -- City & country -- City of miracles & hype -- Uruchurtu's city -- City of dread & redemption -- City of denial & shame -- City in crisis -- City of neoliberal nightmares -- Left city.
520			_aJohn Ross has been living in the old colonial quarter of Mexico City for the last three decades, a rebel journalist covering Mexico and the region from the bottom up. He is filled with a gnawing sense that his beloved Mexico City´s days as the most gargantuan, chaotic, crime-ridden, toxically contaminated urban stain in the western world are doomed, and the monster he has grown to know and love through a quarter century of reporting on its foibles and tragedies and blight will be globalized into one more McCity.El Monstruois a defense of place and the history of that place. No one has told the gritty, vibrant histories of this city of 23 million faceless souls from the ground up, listened to the stories of those who have not been crushed, deconstructed the Monstruo´s very monstrousness, and lived to tell its secrets.
650		4	_aGlobalization _x-Social aspects
651		0	_aMexico City (Mexico) _x--History.
651			_aMexico City (Mexico) _x-Social conditions
651		0	_aMexico City (Mexico) _x--Politics and government
651		0	_aMexico City (Mexico) _x--Economic conditions
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