Hist 19 The History of Mexico - Mario G. Valadez Instructor of History

Topics
• Mexico Obregon to Cardenas 1930s
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Villa’s Assassination
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1bOJu6V728&feature=relmfu
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Plutarco Elias Calles
President 1924-1928
• Sonora
• Problems with the U.S.
• 1926 “Ley Calles”
– Anti-clerical
– Church schools closed down
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Cristeros Rebellion 1926-1929
• 3 year Church Strike
• Attack on rural schools
• Jalisco, Michoacán,
Guanajuato
• 1928 Obregon assassination
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http://www.executedtoday.com/2009/02/09/1929-jose-de-leon-toral-assassin-ofalvaro-obregon/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKeOHZ9NWao
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“Perfect Dictatorship”
1929-2000
• Founded 1929 PNR
– Plutarco Calles
– Inclusive: leftist to capitalists
• Dedazo
– (candidates hand-picked)
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Club America
1916
Owned by Azcárraga family
1959
Televisa
1955
Azcárraga family
1988 90% of Televisa’s ads
favored the PRI
PAN
Founded 1939
Manuel Gomez Morin
Founded
1989
Cuauhtémoc
Cardenas
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Lazaro Cardenas
1934-1940
Castillo de Chapultepec
Los Pinos
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Lazaro Cardenas Administration
• Agrarian Reform
– Restoration of Ejidos
• 1938 nationalizes the oil
industry
– Pemex (Petroleos Mexicanos)
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Spanish Civil War 1936-1939
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• U.S. Great Depression
– On October 29, 1929 (Black Tuesday) the stock market crashed.
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The Rise of PRI
Cardenas
•
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1bOJu6V728&feature=relmfu
• Villa to Cardenas
• 4:30 mins
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Mexico’s Golden Age of Cinema
1935-1959
• Alla En El Rancho Grande 1936
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Stars of the Golden Era of Mexican
Cinema
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Maria Felix
Pedro Infante
Mario Moreno “Cantinflas”
German Valdes “Tin Tan”
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• MARIA FELIX DOÑA DIABLA
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozHEiJpg5Ow
• Tizoc - Parte 1
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmuF0XYcuMI
• Around the World in Eighty Days 1956
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJr-_-VezmQ
• Tin Tan El hijo desobediente 2
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdFXFGyltfc&feature=fvst
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Mexican Muralist Movements
• Jose Vasconcelos
– Artist served the Revolution
• Diego Rivera
• Jose Clemente Orozco
• David Alfaro Siqueiros
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Mexican Muralists
• Diego Rivera
– Indian motifs
– Europeans vilified
• Frida Kahlo
– human suffering
2010
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Agrarian Leader
Zapata , 1931
La Civilizacion
Tarasca, 1950
1935
History of
Mexico
National
Palace
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1930s Man at the Crossroads
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Self-portrait on the Borderline
Between Mexico and
the United States, 1932
The Two Fridas, 1939
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Cortes and Malinche 1926
Jose Clemente Orozco
Hospicio Cabañas
Guadalajara, Mexico
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1933 Orozco Mural at Dartmouth College
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David A. Siqueiros
• From the Dictatorship of
Porfirio Diaz to the
Revolution—The
Revolutionaries by
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Tropical America 1932
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Asu no Shinwa (Myth of Tomorrow)
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Asu no Shinwa (Myth of Tomorrow)
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Mexican Muralists
• LA TORMENTA QUE AZOTO MEXICO pt7/8
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GvZxHG6
Y6Q&feature=relmfu
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