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The Logic of Compromise in Mexico
Gladys I. McCormick
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The University of North Carolina Press 
Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Geschichte
Beschreibung
In this political history of twentieth-century Mexico, Gladys McCormick argues that the key to understanding the immense power of the long-ruling Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) is to be found in the countryside. Using newly available sources, including declassified secret police files and oral histories, McCormick looks at large-scale sugar cooperatives in Morelos and Puebla, two major agricultural regions that serve as microcosms of events across the nation. She argues that Mexico's rural peoples, despite shouldering much of the financial burden of modernization policies, formed the PRI regime's most fervent base of support.
McCormick demonstrates how the PRI exploited this support, using key parts of the countryside to test and refine instruments of control--including the regulation of protest, manipulation of collective memories of rural communities, and selective application of violence against critics--that it later employed in other areas, both rural and urban. With three peasant leaders, brothers named Ruben, Porfirio, and Antonio Jaramillo, at the heart of her story, McCormick draws a capacious picture of peasant activism, disillusion, and compromise in state formation, revealing the basis for an enduring political culture dominated by the PRI. On a broader level, McCormick demonstrates the connections among modern state building in Latin America, the consolidation of new forms of authoritarian rule, and the deployment of violence on all sides.
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Lázaro Cárdenas, Zacatepec, Sugar industry in Mexico, Institutional Revolutionary Party, William Jenkins, Atencingo, Corruption in rural Mexico, Workers in rural Mexico, Heroes in rural Mexico, Clientelism, DFS in Mexico, Ejidatarios, Rubén Jaramillo, Collective memory, Antonio Jaramillo, Agrarian reform in Mexico, Porfirio Jaramillo, Rural Mexico, Confederación Nacional Campesina, Sugar cooperatives in Mexico, Puebla, Repression in Mexico, Sugar production cooperative in Mexico, PRI in Mexico, Authoritarianism in Mexico, Patron-client relations in Mexico, Countryside in Mexico, Dirección Federal de Seguridad, Political violence in Mexico, Morelos, Oral histories in Mexico, Peasants in rural Mexico, Heir of Emiliano Zapata, Dirty war in Mexico, Ejido