The Last Good Neighbor

Eric Zolov is Professor of History at Stony Brook University. He is coeditor of Fragments of a Golden Age: The Politics of Culture in Mexico since 1940, also published by Duke University Press, and author of Refried Elvis: The Rise of Mexican Counterculture.

List of Abbreviations  ix
Acknowledgments  xiii
Introduction. Mexico in the Global Sixties  1
1. Mexico's "Restless" Left and the Resurrection of Lázaro Cárdenas  21
2. "Luniks and Sputniks in Chapultepec!": The 1959 Soviet Exhibition and Peaceful Coexistence in Mexico  55
3. Mexico's New Internationalism: Regional Leadership amid the Tumult of the Cuban Revolution  80
4. The "Spirit of Bandung" in Mexican National Politics  108
5. The "Preferred Revolution": Confronting the Crisis of Mexican Neutralism  140
6. New Left Splits: The Implosion of the Movimiento de Liberación Nacional  162
7. Apex of Internationalism: Pursuing a Global Pivot  197
8. The Last Good Neighbor  246
Epilogue. Into the Global 1970s  285
Notes  299
Bibliography  373
Index  389