El Presidente Lorenzo Teran, un hombre bueno pero abulico. Su intrigante jefe de Gabinete, Tacito de la Canal. Su calculador secretario de Gobernacion, Bernal Herrera. Mondragon von Bertrab, el severo secretario de la Defensa, portador de un terrible secreto. El jefe de la policia, Cicero Arruza, que no tiene enemigos porque los ha matado a todos. Y dominandolo todo, Maria del Rosario Galvan, operadora politica y sexual suprema que un dia le dice a su joven amante, Nicolas Valdivia: Tu seras presidente de Mexico. Te ponen en el pecho la banda tricolor, te sientas en la Silla del Aguila y ¡vamonos! Es como si te hubieras subido a la montana rusa, te sueltan... y haces una mueca que se vuelve tu mascara... la Silla del Aguila, es nada mas y nada menos que un asiento en la montana rusa que llamamos La Republica Mexicana.

The intimate life of artist Frida Kahlo is wonderfully revealed in the illustrated journal she kept during her last 10 years. This passionate and at times surprising record contains the artist's thoughts, poems, and dreams; many reflecting her stormy relationship with her husband, artist Diego Rivera, along with 70 mesmerising watercolour illustrations. The text entries in brightly coloured inks make the journal as captivating to look at as it is to read. Her writing reveals the artist's political sensibilities, recollections of her childhood, and her enormous courage in the face of more than thirty-five operations to correct injuries she had sustained in an accident at the age of eighteen.

After collapsing from an illness while attending a business meeting, a dying Artemio Cruz, a rich and powerful land owner in modern Mexico, is driven by conscience to recall his corrupt life.