Even though I read the book in Spanish, my review will be in English as that is my native tongue.
I highly recommend this book for anyone wanting to understand that "thing," that strange Mexican psyche, the dinosaur in the living room that prevents Mexico from developing, modernizing, coming out of the dark ages to join the rest of North America. The shackles go back to that "glorious" myth of the Mexican Revolution.
I read this book in two days, a record for me!
I have to agree with another review that said the books spends a lot of time on world history (when the cover suggests it's entirely about amlo) but that world history, and worldwide cultural analysis is critical to understanding the dinosaur (the authoritarian rule that never really went extinct after Mexico's civil war, no it wasn't a revolution), the current "tyrannosaurus" called amlo, AND the society that elected him to power.
It's a fascinating and frightening look at Mexico's short lived (25 years) liberal democracy, a baby in terms of years, but it was well on its way to developing into a toddler before amlo stomped on it, in Jurassic Park style.
(not all is lost, I think) Schettino gives the reader the simple tools to get Mexico back on track to a democratic republic, and it isn't about just introducing more reforms, it means social change--difficult work, though not an impossibility. It means changing the Mexican mentality, embracing the uncertain and unknown.
Excellent.