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Mexican Rev 4 Institutionalization
Mexican Rev 4 Institutionalization
Institutionalization
1928 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
President Calles.
Generals Gomez and
Serrano
Attempted to take power
before Obregon
Obregon assassinated
Presidential succession
crisis
Political Parties
MID 1920S – EDUCATION MINISTER
VASCONCELOS
INSPIRED STUDENT ACTIVISTS TO
ORGANIZE POLITICAL PARTIES
PARTIDO DE ACCION NACIONAL – PAN
– CONSERVATIVE
PARTIDO POPULAR [PROGRESSIVE]
PNR (later the PRI)
CALLES PROPOSAL TO SOLVE THE
POLITICAL CRISIS
CREATION OF A POLITICAL PARTY TO
CATER TO “MOST” REVOLUTIONARY
CAUDILLOS
PARTIDO NACIONAL
REVOLUCIONARIO – PNR
ANTECEDENT TO PRI – PARTIDO
REVOLUCIONARIO INSTITUCIONAL
PNR/PRI
BECAME THE MEANS FOR SELECTING
MEXICO’S PRESIDENTS
IMPLEMENT THE PROGRAMS OF THE
POLITICAL PARTY
MAINTAIN A POLITICAL ELITE THROUGH
PATRONAGE AND CORRUPTION
LIMIT THE ROLE OF THE MILITARY IN
POLITICS
CONTROL THE OPPOSITION THROUGH
ELECTORAL FRAUD, VIOLENCE, AND
JUDICIAL MANIPULATION
The MAXIMATO
CALLES THOUGHT TO MAINTAIN
CONTROL THROUGH HIS TOTAL
CONTROL
CALLES – JEFE MAXIMO - MAXIMATO
1929
1929 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION –
PROVED NO DIFFERENT THAN
PREVIOUS PRESIDENTIAL CONTESTS
VIOLENCE REMAINED A PART OF THE
MEXICAN POLITICAL PROCESS
USE OF ASSASSINATION, TORTURE,
AND EXECUTION BY HITMEN
CHARACTERIZED MEXICAN POLITICS
LAZARO CARDENAS
Born May 21, 1895 –
died October 19, 1970
born into a lower-
middle class family in
Michoacán.
President of Mexico
from 1934 to 1940.
1934 – became PNR
Candidate
Cardenas’ Legacy
COALITION OF SUPPORTERS – MILITARY,
AGRARIAN, AND LABOR SUPPORTERS
PROGRESSIVE PROGRAM
AGRARIAN REFORM
SOCIALISTIC EDUCATION
ECONOMIC NATIONALISM
LEGACY – MEXICAN NATIONALISM
EXPROPRIATION OF OIL RESOURCES –
1938