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3. Documents of the Mexican revolution

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• Excerpt from Barbarous Mexico by John Kenneth Turner from Barbarous Mexico by John Kenneth Turner (Chicago: Charles H. Kerr & Company, 1910), pp. 120 137 Beware: the print is tiny!! In Historical Text Archive
• James Creelman on Porfirio Diaz Published in Pearson's Magazine in 1908 and led Francisco I. Madero to enter the political arena as a presidential candidate. Tiny print here too!! In Historical Text Archive
• The Plan de Ayala - English text of Emiliano Zapata's declaration proclaiming Francisco Madero a traitor and ordering a third of all hacienda lands to be redistributed to the peasants. From John Womack, Jr, Zapata and the Mexican Revolution (New York: Vintage Books, 1968, 400-404) In Historical Text Archive. In Spanish original: Plan de Ayala   §
• Villa Phone Call, Torreón March 1914
• Mexico: 1917 Constitution (Becker version)
• Octavio Fernández recuerda Entrevista realizada por Olivia Gall en Agosto de 1982
• Mexican Revolution: Conflict in Matamoros - Robert Runyon's photographic account of events in Northeastern Mexico from 1913 through 1916.  Three hundred fifty unique images in the Runyon Collection document one chapter of the revolution which Runyon witnessed in Matamoros, Monterrey, Ciudad Victoria, and the Texas border area and surrounding area.
• Postcards of the Mexican Revolution - touches upon how a great deal of Mexico's history for the decade of 1910-1920 was recorded by photographs mass produced on postcards.

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4. Mexico after the Revolution - politics 

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• Lázaro Cárdenas del Río (1895-1970) By Donald J. Mabry
• Mensaje a los revolucionarios de México Former president Lázaro Cárdenas’ scathing denunciation of electoral fraud, government-run unions, foreign borrowing, the unraveling of land reform, and treatment of indigenous peoples (1970) §
• Adolfo López Mateos Andrea Holland writes: Adolfo López Mateos is considered the first true orator in the presidency of modern Mexico. He is, perhaps, the most fondly remembered of the presidents in the post-war era in Mexico.
• Changing Models of Mexican Politics: A Review Essay [1976] Donald J. Mabry, A Review Essay," The New Scholar, V:1 (1976), 31-37. Historiography of American writings on Mexican politics since 1945, noting the extent to which many of the scholars accepted the government's views. In Historical Text Archive
• Manuel Avila Camacho Bio by Lindon Ratliff In Historical Text Archive.
• Before Democracy: Memories of Mexican Elections Article by Kate Doyle examining elections 1967-72 ad drawing conclusions in general about the process. Documents included.  El artículo en español.
• Prelude to Disaster José López Portillo and the Crash of 1976. A US National Security Archive's Mexico Project article with documentary support. Kate Doyle.

Salinas

• The Turning Point of the PRI: An Analysis of the 1988 Presidential Election in Mexico  Louie Matrisciano analyzes the PRI and how it began to lose control in 1988. Detailed and fully cited. In Historical Text Archive.
• Carlos Salinas de Gortari - President 1988 - 1994 Biography from Mexico Connect by By Jim Tuck
• The Story of Carlos Salinas Bryan Norman looks at the story of Mexico's president from 1988 to 1994.
• Mexico Under Salinas: A Façade of Reform World Policy Journal, Fall 1989  §
• Money, Murder & Mexico PBS Flash site on the rise and fall of the Salinas brothers. Well presented. In Historical Text Archive.

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5. Mexico after the Revolution: Revolts, coups and control 

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• (from Armed Conflict Events Data site)
  • Mexican Catholic Revolt 1926-29
  • Escobar's Rebellion in Mexico 1929
  • Mexican Conservative Revolt 1936
  • Chiapas Rebellion: Mexico 1994
  • Zapatista Suppression 1995
  • EPR Revolt Mexico 1996

Dirty War

• The 1968 Mexican Student Movement Analysis of what happened. by Donald J. Mabry.
• The Tlatelolco Massacre New Declassified U.S. Documents on Mexico and the Events of 1968 A US National Security Archive's Mexico Project article with documentary support. Kate Doyle El artículo en español
• The Dawn of Mexico's Dirty War Lucio Cabañas and the Party of the Poor A US National Security Archive's Mexico Project article on the support for Cabañas and his shooting in 1974. With documentary support. Kate Doyle. El artículo en español
• "Forgetting Is Not Justice" Mexico Bares Its Secret Past (Reprinted with permission of the World Policy Journal). A US National Security Archive's Mexico Project article with documentary support. Kate Doyle writes about the opening of Mexican secret files from the 1960's 7 1970's.
• The Corpus Christi Massacre Mexico's attack on its student movement, June 10, 1971. A US National Security Archive's Mexico Project article with documentary support. Kate Doyle. El artículo en español
• Reporting on Terror Human Rights and the Dirty War in Mexico in the 1970's A US National Security Archive's Mexico Project article with documentary support. Kate Doyle El artículo en español.

Chiapas

• Zapatista / EZLN - index of documents in English on the rebellion Introduction to Mexico and the Zapatistas As it says on the tin from the left wing/anarchist Blackened flag site.
• Zapatistas in Cyberspace  Zapatista examination of how the internet is used
• Zapatista Women * Mujeres Zapatistas links, images, articles from Univ of Texas
• Zapatistas start political tour of Mexico Christian Science Monitor article on the 2005 emergence of the group into the political process.
• Zapatistas quit the jungle for soapbox Subcomandante Marcos leaves four years' hiding to speak out. (Aug 2005) As previous. The Guardian.

 

 

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6. Relations with USA 

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• Double Dealing: Mexico's Foreign Policy Toward Cuba by Kate Doyle. looks at Mexican-Cuban relations through examining relations in the 1960's. With documents. El artículo en español
• The Nixon Tapes Secret recordings from the Nixon White House on Luis Echeverría and much much more A US National Security Archive's Mexico Project article with transcripts and links to audio documentary support. Kate Doyle
• Operation Intercept The perils of unilateralism. Essay & documents about Nixon's project to wage war against narcotic trade on the Mexican frontier and its influence on Mexico. A US National Security Archive's Mexico Project article with documentary support. Kate Doyle El artículo en español
• Online Book: The Influence of Border Troubles on Relations between the United States and Mexico, 1876-1910 by Robert Danforth Gregg; Johns Hopkins press, 1937

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7. Modern Mexico 

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• Mexico - Country Study US Library of Congress. Links to key sections:
  • National Security Concerns
  • Armed Forces
  • Public Order and Internal Security
  • The Chiapas Rebellion 
  • Human Rights Concerns
  • Narcotics Trafficking 
  • Government Structure  
  • Institutions of Civil Society 
  • Foreign Relations
  • Structure of Society
• Documents on Mexican Politics very thorough listing of documents about the current situation. Well divided up into areas of influence. University of Waterloo
• The Blind Man and the Elephant Reporting on the Mexican Military. A US National Security Archive's Mexico Project article with documentary support. Kate Doyle.
• The Political Network In Mexico: Between Conflict and Stability Political science paper by Samuel Schmidt, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Texas at El Paso examining the forces that operate on the Mexican political structure.
• World Policy Institute: Mexico Good links to articles in English & Spanish on contemporary Mexico.
• Mexico Amnesty international report on Mexico. Link to all  Amnesty international documents on Mexico

For extensive links to colonial Mexico and 19th century Mexico, including the wars with the USA, go to the casahistoria colonial mexico and independence site.