México Negro (Edición 40 Aniversario) / Black Mexico. 40th Anniversary Edition [Spanish]

By Francisco Martín Moreno

Mart n Moreno nos revela, con su en rgica e informada prosa, pasajes in ditos que deber a conocer todo mexicano cr tico de la historia oficial.

« Qui n financi la Revoluci n Mexicana? De d nde salieron las armas y municiones para que nos mat ramos otra vez entre los mexicanos si M xico carec a, y carece, de una poderosa industria militar y a lo largo del movimiento armado no cont bamos con las divisas ni con los metales para importarlas?

Tal parece que, como sentenci el poeta: «El ni o Dios te escritur un establo y los veneros del petr leo, el diablo , pues de pronto en el territorio de una naci n mayoritariamente pobre aparecieron inmensas chapopoteras donde el petr leo afloraba, exhibiendo una riqueza insospechada, y las grandes potencias conspiraron para apropi rsela.

Por las p ginas de esta magn tica novela transitan hombres de negocios disfrazados de diplom ticos, esp as, diputados corruptos, cl rigos de diversa jerarqu a, abogados y notarios mexicanos vendidos a las compa as petroleras extranjeras, extorsionadores de la peor ralea, guardias blancas y toda una caterva de personajes que, durante m s de medio siglo, saquearon impunemente el subsuelo mexicano.

«Al publicar M xico negro, nunca imagin que, a 35 a os de distancia, miles de lectores seguir an ley ndolo. Tampoco supuse la cat strofe que significar a la burocratizaci n de la energ a en M xico: Pemex es la nica compa a petrolera quebrada en el mundo. Su insolvencia financiera puede destruir el cr dito p blico de M xico. Ha sido, con algunas excepciones, una cantera de bandidos. De qu les ha servido la expropiaci n petrolera de 1938 a m s de 50 millones de mexicanos sepultados, hoy en d a, en la pobreza? --Francisco Mart n Moreno

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

With his energetic and well-informed prose, Mart n Moreno reveals previously unpublished passages that every Mexican critical of the official history should know.

"Who financed the Mexican Revolution? Where did the weapons and ammunition come from for us Mexicans to kill each other again if Mexico lacked--and still lacks--a powerful military industry and throughout the armed struggle we had neither the foreign currency nor the metals to import them?"

It seems that, as the poet declared: "Baby Jesus gave you a stable, and the devil gave you the oil wells," for suddenly, in the territory of a largely poor nation, vast oil fields appeared where oil gushed forth, revealing unsuspected wealth, and the great powers conspired to seize it.

The pages of this compelling novel are populated by businessmen disguised as diplomats, spies, corrupt legislators, clergy of various ranks, Mexican lawyers and notaries in the pay of foreign oil companies, extortionists of the worst sort, white guards, and a whole host of characters who, for more than half a century, plundered Mexico's subsoil with impunity.

"When I published Black Mexico, I never imagined that, 35 years later, thousands of readers would still be reading it. Nor did I foresee the catastrophe that the bureaucratization of energy in Mexico would bring: Pemex is the only bankrupt oil company in the world. Its financial insolvency could destroy Mexico's public credit. With a few exceptions, it has been a breeding ground for bandits. What good has the 1938 oil expropriation done for the more than 50 million Mexicans who are now mired in poverty?" --Francisco Mart n Moreno

• Format: Paperback
• Language: Spanish
• ISBN: 6073876629
• ISBN13: 9786073876629
• Release Date: December 2026
• Publisher: Alfaguara
• Length: 688 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.