![]() The Whig Party, the Federalist Party, and the Democratic-Republican Party were important many years ago. There are major differences between the political system of the United States and that of most other developed democracies. These include greater power in the upper house of the legislature, a wider scope of power held by the Supreme Court, the separation of powers between the legislature and the executive, and the dominance of only two main parties. Third parties have less political influence in the United States than in other developed country democracies. Constitution is the main feature of the American governmental system. However, most people are also subject to a state government, and all are subject to various units of local government. The latter include counties, municipalities, and special districts. The federal government was created by the states, which as colonies were established separately and governed themselves independently of the others. Units of local government were created by the colonies to carry out various state functions. As the country expanded, it admitted new states modeled on the existing ones. The USA is a federal union of fifty states. They have governors and legislatures to govern and make their laws. Each state also has two senators who represent their state in the United States Senate. There are also representatives who represent their local district in the United States House of Representatives.Buendía was a prominent Mexican journalist, whose murder in 1984 outraged Mexican journalists and columnists, and featured prominently in newspaper coverage at the time. When former DFS director José Antonio Zorrilla Pérez was indicted for the killing, some suspected that Pérez along was not responsible. University of Wisconsin professors Russell and Sylvia Bartley researched and wrote their book investigating Buendía's murder over about thirty years. The authors used court documents, interviews, newspaper articles, and other communications in their investigation. ![]() The book first examines the murder itself, as well as the official investigation, and concludes that Pérez' conviction for the killing of Buendía was used to cover up the involvement of more senior Mexican officials, including, possibly, Mexico's Secretary of the Interior Manuel Bartlett Díaz. ![]() The second part discusses the research into making the book. The authors discuss broader Mexico-United States relations, which they characterize as marked by "a political culture of institutionalized collusion." In this section, the authors use American court case files, and testimonies from former CIA and DEA agents, to argue that the CIA played a role in killing the journalist Buendía and DEA agent Enrique Camarena for their discovery of the Mexican government's collusion in CIA support for the Contras. Vanessa Freije of the University of Washington concluded that the book is "Accessibly written" and "offers important insights into Mexico’s dirty war and the US-Mexican relationship during the late Cold War." Freije stated that she wished that the book included "More critical attention to Buendía’s complex relationship with political power", as well as more information about Buendía himself and "the calculations that drove Mexican leaders to secretly support the Contras while publicly denouncing them." The end has the author's beliefs about the murder and a rebuttal of the official conclusion. Pansters stated that it is "In many ways,an impressive book." Pansters stated that this book and Mexico's Cold War show the involvement of the U.S. in Mexico and Latin American states other than Cuba during the Cold War. ![]() Pansters stated that the main issue of the book was that relevant figures had in mass journalism outlets, by 2013, already made statements supporting the authors' arguments, making the book out of date before it was published. "Eclipse of the Assassins: The CIA, Imperial Politics, and the Slaying of Mexican Journalist Manuel Buendía". "Spies, Assassins, and Statesmen in Mexico's Cold War". ![]()
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