Guanajuato, Gto., a 12 de agosto de 2016.- Within the 1st World Congress of Administrative Law held at the University of Guanjauato (UG), the author John M. Ackerman presented his book "El mito de la transición democrática. Nuevas coordenadas para la transformación del regimen Mexicano."

The Director of the Division of Law, Politics and Government (DDPG) from UG, Dr. Teresita de Rendón Huerta Barrera, who was a moderator and made the presentation of the book's author and the commentators, described the book as "fundamental for the contemporary history of Mexico."

The Director of the Division of Social Sciences and Humanities (DCSH), Dr. Aureliano Ortega Esquivel shared his thoughts and impressions of the work and highlighted that this is an important contribution not only for the comprehension of the present and to understand an informed way and sustained in the knowledge of processes that currently happen, but to provide an element for action through this dialectic complement.

In this title, John Ackerman explains that the Mexican society must rescue the projects of their two largest social-historical movements: Independence, and above all, the Mexican Revolution.

During his intervention, the author made a reflection on the exercise of the lawyers in Mexico and cleared that to be a Mexican jury and not be a revolutionary is a large contradiction.

He made a criticism of Mexican democracy, which declares inexistent, since the country continues within the same authoritarian system that censors and represses movements and social activists, a void that can only be filled by society's inconformity.

On his part, the journalist Arnoldo Cuéllar said that this text is not only an essay of comprehension, it is also a militant text, as it is clear from the beginning and along the argument. He reflected that "we don't need redeemers, but rules to be applied and rule everyone." He concluded with the invitation to introduce in the reading the work..

John M. Ackerman is a researcher from the Institute of Legal Investigations from UNAM, Ph.D. in Political Sociology by the University of California, Santa Cruz and Joint president of the International Association of Administrative Law. He is a member of the National Researchers System, Editorial Director of the Mexican Law Review, as well as a column writer of magazines and national and foreign newspapers.