Product Description: 1988: The Year that the System Went Silent, by Martha Anaya, is a much needed book: it recovers, in a vibrant journalistic chronicle, a year that changed Mexico: 1988. This work describes, minute by minute, the most difficult moments of the 6th of July of that year, Election Day, in which not only the computer system went down, but also "shut off" very well known personalities of the Mexican political system; it discloses the details of the secret encounter between Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas and Carlos Salinas de Gortari a couple of weeks after the elections; and reveals which was the agreement between the "panistas" leaders and Salinas in order to allow him to reach the Presidency of the Republic in spite of the fact that he was considered ''illegitimate ''...read more