Against Mexico's Strongmen

In 1974 a 27-year-old engineer named Enrique Krauze presented his doctoral dissertation at El Colegio de Mexico, one of the most prestigious academic institutions in the country. Its subsequent publication as Cultural Caudillos of the Mexican Revolution (1976) transformed its author into one of the most promising historians of his generation. As the years have passed, Krauze has become one of the few remaining Latin American intellectuals whose relationship to power has also been the subject of his work.