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Who governed? Grassroots politics in Mexico under the Partido Revolucionario Institucional, 1958-1970

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Smith, Benjamin T. (2014) Who governed? Grassroots politics in Mexico under the Partido Revolucionario Institucional, 1958-1970. Past & Present, 225 (1). pp. 227-271. doi:10.1093/pastj/gtu034 ISSN 0031-2746.

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Abstract

For seventy-one years the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) not only dominated Mexico’s presidential and congressional votes but also won the vast majority of local elections. 1 Revolutionaries had fought for the right to choose local representatives, and the principle of municipal governance was enshrined in the 1917 Constitution. 2 As a result, opponents of Mexico’s hegemonic system often focused their critiques on municipal presidents or mayors. In the 1960s opposition politicians asserted that the PRI imposed ‘rogues and violent men’, and claimed that only eight of the country’s municipalities had experienced free votes. 3 Left-leaning commentators often concurred, arguing that local officials constituted a ‘mafia’. 4 Even discontented PRI functionaries declared that ‘municipal representatives … were selected directly from the federal capital’ and were ‘obscure and ill-qualified for the job’. 5 By the end of the decade, the cartoonist Rius’s Don Perpetuo, the corpulent, drunken mayor of San Garabato, had become a symbol of the PRI regime. Fantastically wealthy, inveterately corrupt and imposed from above without any popular support, there was, as one columnist remarked, ‘a Don Perpetuo in every village’. 6 (See Map .)

Item Type: Journal Article
Divisions: Faculty of Arts > History
Journal or Publication Title: Past & Present
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISSN: 0031-2746
Official Date: 1 November 2014
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1 November 2014Published
27 October 2014Available
UNSPECIFIEDAccepted
Volume: 225
Number: 1
Page Range: pp. 227-271
DOI: 10.1093/pastj/gtu034
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
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