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The Logic of Compromise in Mexico - How the Countryside Was Key to the Emergence of Authoritarianism (Hardcover)
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The Logic of Compromise in Mexico - How the Countryside Was Key to the Emergence of Authoritarianism (Hardcover)
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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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