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The Logic of Compromise in Mexico: How the Countryside Was Key to the Emergence of Authoritarianism

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On 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. The use of newly to be had 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, in spite of shouldering much of the financial burden of modernization policies, formed the PRI regime’s most fervent base of make stronger.

McCormick demonstrates how the PRI exploited this make stronger, The use of key parts of the countryside to test and refine instruments of keep an eye on–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, on the heart of her story, McCormick draws a capacious picture of peasant activism, disillusion, and compromise in state formation, revealing the basis for a long lasting political culture dominated by the PRI. On a broader level, McCormick demonstrates the connections among brand new state building in Latin The usa, the consolidation of new forms of authoritarian rule, and the deployment of violence on all sides.

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