Mexico: Chaos on Our Doorstep
Reviewed by Robert D. Crassweller
Employing muscular prose, a journalist has produced here a dark vision of the Mexican future. He views the current dilemmas as a third national crisis, after the break with Spain and the 1910 revolution, and predicts not a tidy revolution from the left but a gradual breakdown as the PRI erodes, "a devolution into chaos."

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