No two events in the history of independent Latin America can match the significance of the revolutionary wars that shook Mexico from 1910 to 1920 and Cuba from 1956 to 1959. Both revolutions replaced aging dictatorships with reformers who promised democracy, social justice, and national dignity. Indeed, the revolutions transformed both countries during the many decades (eight in Mexico, five and counting in Cuba) in which those who governed in the name of the revolution held power.
Both revolutions also had important, and at times even transformative, effects beyond their borders. The effects of the Cuban Revolution abroad have been indisputably immense and widely recognized by scholars. Less consequential were the international repercussions of Mexico’s revolution. In this collection of six previously published essays, Pablo Yankelevich argues that that they nevertheless merit more attention, because “the Mexican Revolution has achieved considerable ramifications and has come to impact, with uneven significance,...
