Roberto Zepeda's Books

The Decline of Labor Unions in Mexico during the Neoliberal Period

By: Roberto Zepeda

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The Decline of Labor Unions in Mexico during the Neoliberal Period

By: Roberto Zepeda

This book examines the most significant factors accounting for the decline of union density during the neoliberal period, focusing on the case of Mexico. Union density, which reflects the representation of labor unions in the employed labor force, is one of the main indicators of union strength. The relation of organized labor with the state and the political system are also considered. The analysis is framed within a structure concentrated on cyclical, structural and political-institutional factors linked to labor union performance. Over the last decades, the transformations brought about by neoliberalism and democratization reshaped many features of the domestic political and economic model in Mexico. Therefore, an examination of these developments regarding the repercussions of the factors linked to union density decline is crucial.

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Springer Nature

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3030657108

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9783030657109

Organized Crime, Drug Trafficking, and Violence in Mexico

The Transition from Felipe Calderón to Enrique Peña Nieto

By: Jonathan D. Rosen,Roberto Zepeda

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Organized Crime, Drug Trafficking, and Violence in Mexico

The Transition from Felipe Calderón to Enrique Peña Nieto

By: Jonathan D. Rosen,Roberto Zepeda

Organized Crime, Drug Trafficking, and Violence in Mexico: The Transition from Felipe Calderón to Enrique Peña Nieto examines the major trends in organized crime and drug trafficking in Mexico. The book provides an exhaustive analysis of drug-related violence in the country. This work highlights the transition from the Felipe Calderón administration to the Enrique Peña Nieto government, focusing on differences and continuities in counternarcotics policies as well as other trends such as violence and drug trafficking.

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Lexington Books

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1498535615

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9781498535618

Drug War Mexico

Politics, Neoliberalism and Violence in the New Narcoeconomy

By: Peter Watt,Roberto Zepeda

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Drug War Mexico

Politics, Neoliberalism and Violence in the New Narcoeconomy

By: Peter Watt,Roberto Zepeda

Mexico is a country in crisis. Capitalizing on weakened public institutions, widespread unemployment, a state of lawlessness and the strengthening of links between Mexican and Colombian drug cartels, narcotrafficking in the country has flourished during the post-1982 neoliberal era. In fact, it has become one of Mexico's biggest source of revenue, as well as its most violent, with over 12,000 drug-related executions in 2011 alone. In response, Mexican president Felipe Calderón, armed with millions of dollars in US military aid, has launched a crackdown, ostensibly to combat organised crime. Despite this, human rights violations have increased, as has the murder rate, making Ciudad Juárez on the northern border the most dangerous city on the planet. Meanwhile, the supply of cocaine, heroin, marijuana and methamphetamine has continued to grow. In this insightful and controversial book, Watt and Zepeda throw new light on the situation, contending that the 'war on drugs' in Mexico is in fact the pretext for a US-backed strategy to bolster unpopular neoliberal policies, a weak yet authoritarian government and a radically unfair status quo.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1848138881

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9781848138889

Timeless Love

Amorifilia

By: Roberto Mendoza

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Timeless Love

Amorifilia

By: Roberto Mendoza

Everything starts and everything ends. Between the Alpha and Omega points of our lives we can define two stages: a growing one and a decreasing one. They are the two halves that characterize all biological process. The outward journey grows up to the limit of the evolutionary process. Then the involution begins. As the phases of the Moon: crescent, full moon, decreasing, new moon. Thus is life.

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1463365276

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Silvestre Revueltas

Sounds of a Political Passion

By: Roberto Kolb-Neuhaus

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Silvestre Revueltas

Sounds of a Political Passion

By: Roberto Kolb-Neuhaus

To this day, both at home and beyond Mexico's borders, Silvestre Revueltas (1899-1940) has been systematically portrayed as a nationalist composer. Unknown or ignored, his private and public writings destroy this myth straight out. The then-fashionable musicking of a presumed Mexicanness was far from Revueltas' mind. Strongly inspired by the Soviet Revolution, his dream was to find ways to sound the voice of the social people, not only those wandering the Mexican streets but also the gypsy miners in Spain, the black slaves in the U.S. South, and those in Cuba in colonial times. The various soundings of such social actors account for the diversity of aesthetics in his works, explored in this book through a correlation of the musical texts with the composer's writings as well as his political activism: he was not only active at home as a leading member of the League of Revolutionary Writers and Artists, but also significantly as a member of the Mexican delegation visiting Republican Spain in the midst of the war against Franco's fascist troupes. With few exceptions, though, most of his works seek to transcend standards of political art expression, such as program music or scores variously linked to word or image. Significantly, Revueltas' early instrumental works appear to abstract a musical ontology from the time and space of his diverse and multiple social actors through a daringly free use of montage and collage. Avant-garde rebellion and satire are also present in his best-known late works. Revueltas's is a unique and provocative decolonial art that pokes fun at the cosmopolitanistic fantasies of his Eurocentric peers at home as well as exoticizing expectations abroad. Unveiling the sense behind Revueltas's irony and the form political passion takes on in his music is the intention behind Kolb-Neuhaus's hermeneutic approach, which intertwines Revueltian art with his writings and political actions"--

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Oxford University Press

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019975148X

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9780199751488

The COVID-19 Textbook

Science, Medicine and Public Health

By: William A. Haseltine,Roberto Patarca

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The COVID-19 Textbook

Science, Medicine and Public Health

By: William A. Haseltine,Roberto Patarca

The COVID-19 Textbook: Science, Medicine, and Public Health explores every facet of SARS-COV-2, giving the reader an understanding of what is needed to control the spread of the virus, prevent and manage its pathological effects, as well as mitigate the impact of future pandemics. Each chapter is authored by leading global experts in the field and includes topics such as molecular biology, epidemiology, pathogenesis, immunology, diagnosis, and the latest prevention and treatment approaches. Edited by renowned educator and medical researcher Dr. William A. Haseltine, physician-researcher, and chronic fatigue syndrome expert Dr. Roberto Patarca, it includes detailed references in every chapter, allowing easy access to comprehensive primary data. • Offers a timely, reliable overview authored and edited by leading global experts in the multifaceted areas covered on SARS-CoV-2 and the COVID-19 pandemic. • Serves as an authoritative and comprehensive text to be utilized by physicians, medical professionals, researchers, students, public health professionals, and policymakers.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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197520235X

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9781975202354

The Sword in the Rose

The Color of Passion

By: Roberto Mendoza

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The Sword in the Rose

The Color of Passion

By: Roberto Mendoza

So if love disarms wills and makes us happy, indifference generates sadness, lets insist on looking for a requited love. Because we are born to be happy, with that human right. This is the time in which we can practice it. ..Little path covered with tuberoses Smile, my lady! Today is a beautiful day...!

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1463365225

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The Dragon in the Room

China and the Future of Latin American Industrialization

By: Kevin Gallagher,Roberto Porzecanski

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The Dragon in the Room

China and the Future of Latin American Industrialization

By: Kevin Gallagher,Roberto Porzecanski

In the eyes of many, China's unprecedented economic rise has brought nothing but good news to the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean. Indeed, China's growing appetite for primary products, and the ability of Latin America to supply that demand, has played a role in restoring growth in Latin America, both in the run-up to the global financial crisis and in its aftermath. The dragon in the room that few are talking about is the fact that China is simultaneously out-competing Latin American manufacturers in world markets—so much so that it may threaten the ability of the region to generate long-term economic growth. One of the authors' key claims is that China is rapidly building the technological capabilities necessary for industrial development, whereas Latin American tech innovation and sophistication lags considerably. At a deeper level, the findings in this volume imply that China's road to globalization, one that emphasizes gradualism and coordinated macro-economic and industrial policies, is far superior to the "Washington Consensus" route taken by most Latin American nations, particularly Mexico.

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Stanford University Press

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0804775982

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9780804775984

Aztlán and Arcadia

Religion, Ethnicity, and the Creation of Place

By: Roberto Ramón Lint Sagarena

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Aztlán and Arcadia

Religion, Ethnicity, and the Creation of Place

By: Roberto Ramón Lint Sagarena

In the wake of the Mexican-American War, competing narratives of religious conquest and re-conquest were employed by Anglo American and ethnic Mexican Californians to make sense of their place in North America. These “invented traditions” had a profound impact on North American religious and ethnic relations, serving to bring elements of Catholic history within the Protestant fold of the United States’ national history as well as playing an integral role in the emergence of the early Chicano/a movement. Many Protestant Anglo Americans understood their settlement in the far Southwest as following in the footsteps of the colonial project begun by Catholic Spanish missionaries. In contrast, Californios—Mexican-Americans and Chicana/os—stressed deep connections to a pre-Columbian past over to their own Spanish heritage. Thus, as Anglo Americans fashioned themselves as the spiritual heirs to the Spanish frontier, many ethnic Mexicans came to see themselves as the spiritual heirs to a southwestern Aztec homeland.

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NYU Press

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1479882364

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9781479882366

2666

A Novel

By: Roberto Bolaño

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A Novel

By: Roberto Bolaño

A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER THE POSTHUMOUS MASTERWORK FROM "ONE OF THE GREATEST AND MOST INFLUENTIAL MODERN WRITERS" (JAMES WOOD, THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW) Composed in the last years of Roberto Bolaño's life, 2666 was greeted across Europe and Latin America as his highest achievement, surpassing even his previous work in its strangeness, beauty, and scope. Its throng of unforgettable characters includes academics and convicts, an American sportswriter, an elusive German novelist, and a teenage student and her widowed, mentally unstable father. Their lives intersect in the urban sprawl of SantaTeresa—a fictional Juárez—on the U.S.-Mexico border, where hundreds of young factory workers, in the novel as in life, have disappeared.

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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1466804823

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9781466804821

Molecular Biology of SARS-CoV-2

Opportunities for Antivirus Drug Development

By: William A. Haseltine,Roberto Patarca

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Molecular Biology of SARS-CoV-2

Opportunities for Antivirus Drug Development

By: William A. Haseltine,Roberto Patarca

Offering a thorough, accessible overview of the basic science and clinical data regarding the virus that causes COVID-19, Molecular Biology of SARS-CoV-2 is an excellent resource for researchers, clinical scientists, physicians, and students. This volume offers in-depth, extended content that originated with Drs. Roberto Patarca’s and William A. Haseltine’s chapter in The COVID-19 Textbook, edited by Dr. Haseltine and Dr. Patarca. The greatly expanded material in this text provides a much-needed primer in this complex area.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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1975231333

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9781975231330

Drug War Mexico

Politics, Neoliberalism and Violence in the New Narcoeconomy

By: Peter Watt,Roberto Zepeda

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Drug War Mexico

Politics, Neoliberalism and Violence in the New Narcoeconomy

By: Peter Watt,Roberto Zepeda

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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Organized Crime, Drug Trafficking, and Violence in Mexico

The Transition from Felipe Calderón to Enrique Peña Nieto

By: Jonathan D. Rosen,Roberto Zepeda

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Organized Crime, Drug Trafficking, and Violence in Mexico

The Transition from Felipe Calderón to Enrique Peña Nieto

By: Jonathan D. Rosen,Roberto Zepeda

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1498535615

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Drug War Mexico

Politics, Neoliberalism and Violence in the New Narcoeconomy

By: Peter Watt,Roberto Zepeda Martínez

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Drug War Mexico

Politics, Neoliberalism and Violence in the New Narcoeconomy

By: Peter Watt,Roberto Zepeda Martínez

Mexico is in crisis. During the neoliberal era, narcotrafficking has flourished to become one of the country's biggest sources of revenue, as well as its most violent, with over 12,000 drug-related executions in 2011 alone. This insightful, controversial book throws new light on the situation, contending that the 'war on drugs' in Mexico is in fact a pretext for a US-backed strategy to bolster unpopular neoliberal policies, a weak yet authoritarian government and a radically unfair status quo.

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1350219746

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Reconceptualizing Security in the Americas in the Twenty-First Century

By: Bruce M. Bagley,Jonathan D. Rosen,Hanna Samir Kassab

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Reconceptualizing Security in the Americas in the Twenty-First Century

By: Bruce M. Bagley,Jonathan D. Rosen,Hanna Samir Kassab

This book illustrates the plethora of security concerns of the Americas in the 21st century. It presents the work of a number of prolific scholars and analysts in the continents of America. The book provides one of the only expansive applications of theory to a wide geographical area. It offers new perspectives and urges readers to take theory seriously through use. Within the Americas, we find a number of important issues that compose of this geographic security complex. Most important are the threats that supersede borders: drug trafficking, migration, health, and environment. These threats change our understanding of security and the state and region process of neutralizing or correcting these threats. This volume evaluates these threats within contemporary security discourse.

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0739194860

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The Obama Doctrine in the Americas

By: Hanna Samir Kassab,Jonathan D. Rosen

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The Obama Doctrine in the Americas

By: Hanna Samir Kassab,Jonathan D. Rosen

This volume examines the foreign policy transition from George W. Bush to Barack H. Obama in relation to the countries of the Americas. In this work, contributors consider the major defining features of their respective policies in dealing with security-related issues. Specifically, they examine whether major differences or continuities truly exist between the foreign policies of Bush and Obama, especially given the perception of American decline. The volume highlights Obama’s foreign policy in the Americas, focusing on issue areas that threaten international security, such as drug trafficking, organized crime, and terrorism. This work provides both theoretical and policy insights for academics and policy analysts interested in foreign affairs.

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