Kinship, Business, and PoliticsThe Martnez del Ro family was a vigorous contestant in the highly politicized economy of early national Mexico. David Walkers case study of its successes and failures provides a unique insiders view of the trials and tribulations of doing business in a hostile environment. The familys ordeal in Mexicoa series of personal dislocations and traumasmirrored the painful contractions of an old society reluctantly giving birth to a new nation. Using