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'Compare the wealth and refinement of cities such as Mexico... in the middle of the eighteenth century, with the austere simplicity, verging on poverty, of... Philadelphia, a misleading splendour; what was dawn for the United States was twilight for Latin America...' Octavio Paz Published April 30 1984
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G.P.C. Thomson looks at a work which cuts away the mythology of the Mexican revolution
Published March 1 1981
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