TY - BOOK ID - 78340658 TI - The logic cf compromise in Mexico PY - 2016 SN - 1469627752 1469627760 9781469627762 9781469627755 9781469627748 1469627744 9798890849373 PB - Chapel Hill [North Carolina] [Place of publication not identified] University of North Carolina Press [publisher not identified] DB - UniCat KW - State-sponsored terrorism KW - Political corruption KW - Government violence KW - Governmental violence KW - State-sponsored violence KW - State terrorism KW - Violence, Governmental KW - Violence, State-sponsored KW - Political atrocities KW - Terrorism KW - Jaramillo, Ruben M., KW - Partido Revolucionario Institucional KW - Partido de la RevolucioĢn Mexicana KW - PRI KW - P.R.I. KW - History. KW - Puebla (Mexico : State) KW - Morelos (Mexico : State) KW - Mexico KW - Estado de Morelos (Mexico) KW - Morelos, Mexico. KW - Etat du Morelos (Mexico) KW - Gobierno del Estado de Puebla (Mexico) KW - Rural conditions. KW - Politics and government UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78340658 AB - In this political history of twentieth-century Mexico, Gladys McCormick argues that the key to understanding the immense power of the long-ruling Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) is to be found in the countryside. Using newly available sources, including declassified secret police files and oral histories, McCormick looks at large-scale sugar cooperatives in Morelos and Puebla, two major agricultural regions that serve as microcosms of events across the nation. She argues that Mexico's rural peoples, despite shouldering much of the financial burden of modernization policies, formed the PRI regime's most fervent base of support. McCormick demonstrates how the PRI exploited this support, using key parts of the countryside to test and refine instruments of control--including the regulation of protest, manipulation of collective memories of rural communities, and selective application of violence against critics--that it later employed in other areas, both rural and urban. With three peasant leaders, brothers named Ruben, Porfirio, and Antonio Jaramillo, at the heart of her story, McCormick draws a capacious picture of peasant activism, disillusion, and compromise in state formation, revealing the basis for an enduring political culture dominated by the PRI. On a broader level, McCormick demonstrates the connections among modern state building in Latin America, the consolidation of new forms of authoritarian rule, and the deployment of violence on all sides. ER -