Mexican Lives

"Judith Adler Hellman evokes the sights, sounds and smells of her subject in Mexican Lives, a series of interviews conducted from 1990 to 1993 with people ranging from an exporting magnate to a mango vendor. She is especially acute in her descriptions of time-honored traditions of sociolismo, or influence peddling, in which whom you know is the key not just to getting a sewer built in your neighborhood but also to winning the contract to build it."Hellman, Judith Adler is the author of 'Mexican Lives', published 1995 under ISBN 9781565841789 and ISBN 1565841786.