Volume 54, Number 10 · June 14, 2007
The Power of the Prickly Pear
By Michael Wood
The Eagle's Throne
by Carlos Fuentes, translated from the Spanish by Kristina Cordero
Random House, 338 pp., $15.95 (paper)
Last summer, in a series of articles in the Mexican newspaper Reforma, Carlos Fuentes compared the situation of the president-elect of his country, Felipe Calderón, to that of the hero of an old English film: Tony Richardson's Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962). Isolated both from the power bloc represented by Vicente Fox, the outgoing president, and from the extreme right of his party, he seemed to have no allies, while his future was also threatened from the left by an immense, Mexico City–stopping sit-in that ended only in October. Calderón took office in a hurried, almost secretive scramble in December 2006.
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