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About the Author Samuel Schmidt has taught at different universities in the United States and Mexico. He is the associate director of the journal Araucaria, and the director of the weekly El Reto. He received his PhD in political science from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México in 1973 and did postdoctoral work in history at the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1982. He has written numerous books, including Los Grandes problemas nacionales (Miguel Angel Porrua, 2010), En la mira. Chiste politico en México (Taurus, 2006), Chistes étnicos. La risa de todos contra todos (Punto de lectura, 2006), Las grandes soluciones nacionales (Aguilar Nuevo siglo, 2005), and The Deterioration of the Mexican Presidency: The Years of Luis Echeverría (University of Arizona Press, 1991). ...

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