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Author : Renata Keller
Release : 2015-07-28
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Mexico's Cold War by : Renata Keller
Download or read book Mexico's Cold War written by Renata Keller. This book was released on 2015-07-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines Mexico's unique foreign relations with the US and Cuba during the Cold War.
Author : Rebecca Mina Schreiber
Release : 2008
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 075/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Cold War Exiles in Mexico by : Rebecca Mina Schreiber
Download or read book Cold War Exiles in Mexico written by Rebecca Mina Schreiber. This book was released on 2008. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The onset of the Cold War in the 1940s and 1950s precipitated the exile of many U.S. writers, artists, and filmmakers to Mexico. Rebecca M. Schreiber illuminates the work of these cultural exiles in Mexico City and Cuernavaca and reveals how their artistic collaborations formed a vital and effective culture of resistance.
Author : Robert F. Alegre
Release : 2020-04-01
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 648/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Railroad Radicals in Cold War Mexico by : Robert F. Alegre
Download or read book Railroad Radicals in Cold War Mexico written by Robert F. Alegre. This book was released on 2020-04-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the Mexican government's projected image of prosperity and modernity in the years following World War II, workers who felt that Mexico's progress had come at their expense became increasingly discontented. From 1948 to 1958, unelected and often corrupt officials of STFRM, the railroad workers' union, collaborated with the ruling Institutionalized Revolutionary Party (PRI) to freeze wages for the rank and file. In response, members of STFRM staged a series of labor strikes in 1958 and 1959 that inspired a nationwide working-class movement. The Mexican army crushed the last strike on March 26, 1959, and union members discovered that in the context of the Cold War, exercising their constitutional right to organize and strike appeared radical, even subversive. Railroad Radicals in Cold War Mexico examines a pivotal moment in post-World War II Mexican history. The railroad movement reflected the contested process of postwar modernization, which began with workers demanding higher wages at the end of World War II and culminated in the railway strikes of the 1950s, a bold challenge to PRI rule. In addition, Robert F. Alegre gives the wives of the railroad workers a narrative place in this history by incorporating issues of gender identity in his analysis.
Author : Marcos Cueto
Release : 2007-05-04
Genre : Health & Fitness
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Book Synopsis Cold War, Deadly Fevers by : Marcos Cueto
Download or read book Cold War, Deadly Fevers written by Marcos Cueto. This book was released on 2007-05-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description
Author : Alexander Avina
Release : 2014-05-23
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Specters of Revolution by : Alexander Avina
Download or read book Specters of Revolution written by Alexander Avina. This book was released on 2014-05-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1960s represented a revolutionary moment around the globe. In rural Mexico, several guerrilla groups organized to fight against the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). Specters of Revolution chronicles two peasant guerrilla organizations led by schoolteachers, the National Revolutionary Civil Association (ACNR) and the Party of the Poor (PDLP), which waged revolutionary armed struggles to overthrow the PRI. Both emerged to fight decades of massacres and everyday forms of terror committed by the government against citizen social movements that demanded the redemption of constitutional rights. This book reveals that these movements developed after years of seeking legal, constitutional pathways of redress, focused on economic justice and electoral rights, and became subject to brutal counterinsurgencies. Relying upon recently declassified intelligence and military documents and oral histories, it documents how long-held rural utopian ideals drove peasant political action that gradually became radicalized in the face of persistent state terror and violence. Placing Mexico into the broader history of post-1945 Latin America, Specters of Revolution explodes the myth that Mexico constituted an island of relative peace and stability surrounded by a sea of military dictatorships during the Cold War.
