Mexico Quotes

“.22 bullet—very unlikely to kill”
― Enrique Krauze, Mexico: Biography of Power

“It was an odd bullet, a .22-caliber.”
― Enrique Krauze, Mexico: Biography of Power

“The Profits of Religion”
― Enrique Krauze, Mexico: Biography of Power

“His psychological and internal rhythm was not that of the Revolution but of the countryside, the tempo of the ranches, made up of cycles and fatality”
― Enrique Krauze, Mexico: Biography of Power

“But this slowness was also a way of stalling for time. Carranza lacked Díaz’s political instincts but made up for it by letting events simmer and by filtering problems and people. It was almost impossible, for example, to have a face-to-face interview with Carranza. John Reed had to first submit a questionnaire to Carranza’s secretary, Isidro Fabela—one of the men closest to the Primer Jefe—for censoring. Carranza’s knowledge, his years, and his deliberate process of thought and action had made him a stubborn man.17”
― Enrique Krauze, Mexico: Biography of Power

“Dark Chestnut Horse—that dies before it gets tired.” Unlike Maximino, Santos lived”
― Enrique Krauze, Mexico: Biography of Power

“.” He dressed discreetly, without pretension, in a jacket or a sport coat. He traveled by auto with a single aide. “He was very much in love with his wife, Doña Soledad,” recalled Adolfo Orive Alba, the young director of the National Commission for Irrigation who used to accompany him in visiting villages where they would discuss plans for small-scale irrigation. The marriage produced no children but a love that caught Orive’s attention: “For the general to meet a fashionable actress of the time—María Félix, Sofía Alvarez, Dolores del Río—would be like his becoming acquainted with”
― Enrique Krauze, Mexico: Biography of Power

“ejidos.” The teaching centers were “foci for ideological fermentation”
― Enrique Krauze, Mexico: Biography of Power