Reseña de "El Estado y los indígenas en tiempos del PAN: neoindigenismo, legalidad e identidad" de Rosalva Aída Hernández, Sarela Paz y María Teresa Sierra (coords.)

Abstract

The book gathers a series of texts where the situation of the indigenous peoples of Mexico is analyzed after the three first years of a government from the National Action Party. The long-expected “Political Transition of the Mexican Government” was a relevant event in the recent history of the country because of different factors: the change of the party in power, National Action Party (Partido Acción Nacional, PAN) managed to electorally defeat Institutional Revolutionary Party (Partido Revolucionario Institucional, PRI), which had governed the nation for more than seventy years; the advancement, in terms of the democratic consolidation of political processes, as the 2000 election showed important progress as for the strengthening of democratic institutions, which in previous elections lacked the faculties to grant the minimal democratic legitimacy; the setting into motion of a new way to exercise power by means of public and governmental policies, which at first were offered as plural and open to civil participation.