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De regidores porfiristas a presidentes de la República en el periodo revolucionario. Explorando el ascenso y la caída del "sonorismo"

2010; El Colegio de México; Volume: 60; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

2448-6531

Ignacio Almada Bay,

History and Politics in Latin America

This paper presents an inquiry into the predominance achived by Sonoran revolutionaries -known as sonorismo by some authors -between 1920 and 1935 in national political history. It foregrounds their origins according to four elements: the survival of certain old regime practices in a local order resulting from the interaction of strong aboriginal groups, a white, scattered minority, and a weak governmental presence, where no one had control and, therefore, violence and informality, and opportunism and ad hoc solutions ruled; the forming of bonds and solidaruty for the production and control of violence and access to power, centered on kinship networks; the training of public servants in the context of the transition from a vague social concensus to the concentration of power in the hands of governmental authorities, when occupying municipal positions during the porfiriato in their hme state.