The “United Railways of Yucatan”; essays of reorganization 1910-1942
This essay shows a historical alternative that the United Railways of Yucatan could travel. It presents the reorganization project of 1942 analyzing circumstances, actors and expectations that fed it. For this purpose, two sections are developed that frame and precede said alternative; in them it re...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2024 |
| País: | México |
| Institución: | EL COLEGIO DE MÉXICO |
| Repositorio: | Historia Mexicana |
| Idioma: | español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:oai.historiamexicana.colmex.mx:article/4763 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://historiamexicana.colmex.mx/index.php/RHM/article/view/4763 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Yucatán henequén sistema ferroviario administración élites Porfiriato Revolución mexicana Yucatan henequen railway system administration elites Mexican Revolution |
| Sumario: | This essay shows a historical alternative that the United Railways of Yucatan could travel. It presents the reorganization project of 1942 analyzing circumstances, actors and expectations that fed it. For this purpose, two sections are developed that frame and precede said alternative; in them it realizes, among other points, the origins of the company, the tensions that gave birth to it, the first effects that the revolution imposed on it and that continued to overwhelm it, its dependence on the predominance of henequen, the fragility of its finances, the onerous weight of their “english debt” and the various subnational and federal efforts to revitalize them. The last section studies the financial basis of the private project of 1942 that sought to revive them and, for reasons that are clarified, did not prosper. It goes without saying that it seems pertinent to rescue this forgotten experience now that the new Mayan train takes effect. |
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