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Tango01 | 04 Aug 2018 4:00 p.m. PST |
… the Legacy of the Mexican Revolution. "In Mariano Azuela's bestselling novel about the Mexican Revolution, Los de Abajo (The Underdogs) (1915), the revolutionaries who set out to eradicate the corruption and decadence of the Porfirian government themselves become just like their sworn adversaries. The irony of Los de Abajo is that exactly what Azuela wrote came true: what grew out of the Mexican Revolution of 1910-20 morphed from a revolution of the people—or so goes the myth—into an amorphous party dictatorship. The protagonist in Azuela's novel ruminates on the carnage around him, exclaiming, "How beautiful the Revolution is, even in its savagery!"[1] Renata Keller's study of Cold War Mexico examines as a whole how the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) navigated the ins and outs of such a contentious period, both domestically and internationally. For many PRI officials, the brutality that the party enacted to "save" the nation in the mid-twentieth century due to external and internal dangers was in fact a continuation of the party's legacy, and even perhaps beautiful in the face of real and imagined Communist intrusion, no matter how savage. The Cuban Revolution of 1959 shook the PRI to its core. Party officials feared a second Mexican Revolution inspired by the recent revolution in Cuba. The changes in Cuba generated a wave of public support to challenge the supposed revolutionary and democratic underpinnings of the PRI. Students, artists, intellectuals, and even former leftist president Lázaro Cárdenas challenged the conservative and quasi authoritarian aspects of the government, which still lauded the egalitarian and democratic aspects of the Mexican Revolution, while at the same time suppressing railroad strikers and massacring protesting students. Entrenched at the top and refusing to adjust to the changing times, the PRI came to fear the same elements of Mexican society that had decades before helped initiate the Mexican Revolution: los de abajo. Although the PRI feared change, the government had the difficult task of supporting the Cuban Revolution to maintain hemispheric appearances. Keller notes that this tepid support forced a wedge between the PRI's own revolutionary mythos and the more Communistic foundations of the Cuban Revolution. It was clear that Mexican officials were concerned about the real possibility that Cuban agents had infiltrated Mexican institutions and student organizations…." Main page link Amicalement Armand
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Cacique Caribe | 05 Aug 2018 7:01 a.m. PST |
PRI has played dangerously with all sides for decades. That will catch up to them at some point, when one of their "friends" (perhaps those in low places) comes and forces them to finally take a stand on something – anything – no matter how irrational and self-destructive it might end up being for them and for the Republic. I, for one, see lots of gaming scenario potential: TMP link Dan |
Tango01 | 07 Aug 2018 11:35 a.m. PST |
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