Manuel Ávila Camacho's Political Reform
President Manuel Ávila Camacho has gone down in history as the initiator of the Mexican Thermidor because his government put aside the radical policies of his predecessor, while leaving the Cardenist coalition in the background and seeking the cooperation of businessmen, the catholic Church and the...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2013 |
| País: | México |
| Institución: | EL COLEGIO DE MÉXICO |
| Repositorio: | Historia Mexicana |
| Idioma: | español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:oai.historiamexicana.colmex.mx:article/160 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://historiamexicana.colmex.mx/index.php/RHM/article/view/160 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Mexico Ávila Camacho PRI reforms 20th Century México reformas siglo XX |
| Sumario: | President Manuel Ávila Camacho has gone down in history as the initiator of the Mexican Thermidor because his government put aside the radical policies of his predecessor, while leaving the Cardenist coalition in the background and seeking the cooperation of businessmen, the catholic Church and the emerging middle classes. This paper reconstructs the liberal reform project that inspired the changes proposed by Ávila Camacho regarding elections and political parties and which culminated in the introduction of the 1946 Electoral Federal Law and the foundation of the PRI (Institutional Revolutionary Party). The context of the Cold War, however, defeated the president's original intention and strengthened the defense of the statu quo by actors related to Cardenist corporatism, particularly the CTM (Confederation of Mexican Workers). The author shows that the PRI that ruled Mexico during the second half of the 20th century was more the product of a presidential defeat than the triumph of a hegemonic project. |
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