David Lida
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First Stop in the New World: Mexico City, the Capital of the 21st Century
11 editions
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2008
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Field of Battle
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7 editions
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2014
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Las llaves de la ciudad. Un mosaico de México
4 editions
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2008
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One Life
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Travel Advisory : Stories
2 editions
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published
2001
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Circunstancias atenuantes
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Mexico DF: Entonces y ahora
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2009
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Travel Advisory: Stories of Mexico
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2000
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¿En Qué Cabeza Cabe?
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First Stop in the New World Reprint edition
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“…out of the city’s eighty-five thousand streets, there are about eight hundred fifty called Juárez, seven hundred fifty named Hidalgo, and seven hundred known as Morelos. Two hundred are called 16 de Septiembre, while a hundred more are called 16 de Septiembre Avenue, Alley, Mews, or Extension…”
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“Chilango, defeño, capitalino. Different words, each meaning someone who lives in Mexico City. Chilango, especially from the mouth of someone who lives in la provincia, is usually an insult, connoting a loud, arrogant, ill-mannered, loutish person. However, the word has been appropriated by younger generations of city dwellers, who proudly identify themselves as chilangos,”
― First Stop in the New World
― First Stop in the New World
“But with the incessant peso devaluations at the end of the twentieth century, the PRI became a less openhanded benefactor. Although there was a smaller pie to split, politicians of the era of Carlos Hank González became greedier, leaving fewer scraps for their constituents.”
― First Stop in the New World
― First Stop in the New World
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