...Ernesto Capello It is this potential for the “failed landscape” to be transformed that Carte emphasizes in the book's latter chapters. These move away from Obregón's stated purposes to a more intertextual analysis of his narrative's consideration of Spanish policies' impact on the landscape, “in...

...Robert Weis Abstract The 1928 trial of José de León Toral, assassin of Mexican caudillo Álvaro Obregón, afforded President Plutarco Elías Calles the opportunity to show domestic and international audiences that the revolution had yielded a nation of laws predicated on spiritual principles. Summary...

... Constitutionalists under the leadership of Carranza and General Álvaro Obregón in the fall of 1915. The losers in that episode of the revolution included not only Villa's forces but also those of General Emiliano Zapata, the famous originator of an agrarian reform program announced in the Plan of Ayala of November...

...; a factional struggle between the comparatively radical Conventionists, led by Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata, and their more moderate counterparts the Constitutionalists, headed by Venustiano Carranza and Álvaro Obregón, led the nation into civil war; a succession of interventions by the United...

... client was solar in the traza for 14 patacones in 1608 to an Indian named Martín Ynsim. Widows could be saddled with their husband’s debts and thus were even more vulnerable to selling off parts of property. ARLL, PN 45 Obregón, 1608. 34. Testamento de Elena de Faria, ARLL, PN 44 Obregón...

... catolicismo. El caso de José de León Toral”, de Enrique Guerra, ofrece una breve pero muy completa y bien lograda biografía de José de León Toral, el fanático religioso que asesinó a Álvaro Obregón. En su texto, Guerra demuestra con rigor la forma en que Toral interiorizó los valores cristianos y cómo se...

... in using this and other concepts, such as “creole consciousness” and “transnationalism.” Although it is true that Liliana Obregón (cited by the author on page 5) uses the term “creole consciousness” for Latin American regionalism in the history of international law, this concept—which has also...

... sobre un capitán luso-brasileño se plantea la colonización y la indianización como una relación ambivalente por el papel de intermediario cultural que juega su personaje. La frontera mapuche del centro-sur chileno es abordada por Jimena Paz Obregón Iturra, quien plantea la conveniencia de hablar en...

... according to Mexican presidential terms. The first two chapters analyze the roles of Álvaro Obregón (1920–24) and then Plutarco Elías Calles (1924–28) in creating roadbuilding programs out of the devastation of the revolutionary years. During these years, the cash-strapped national government shared a great...

... the regime in some quarters. Jürgen Buchenau then provides a fascinating examination of Álvaro Obregón's rise to prominence in the Mexican Revolution, which deposed Díaz. The volume concludes with José Alberto Olivar's examination of the rush to punish corruption following the 1945 coup that ended the...

... described in 1917 as a mestizo nation, while more inclusive accounts of Mexican culture in the 1920s and muralists such as Diego Rivera further diversified national sources. The examination of Carlos Obregón Santacilia's Mexican Pavilion at the 1922 international exhibition in Rio de Janeiro and his...

... 143 become an indispensable asset to researchers and teachers. In my classes, I still utilize the revealing anecdotes I read in his books or heard as a student in his lectures. There are detailed vignettes about General Álvaro Obregón losing his arm in the Battle of Celaya or getting shot to...

... Obregón: “Ningún General resiste un cañonazo de 50 mil pesos.” Jaskoski's research provides revealing details on military operations and decision making in Peru and Ecuador since the 1980s. A focus on the complexity of military organizations, discretion at the regional and local level, and variations...

... expulsados residían en Veracruz. El porcentaje de expulsados veracruzanos dis- minuyó al 17 por ciento durante la presidencia de Alvaro Obregón, cayó hasta el 11 por ciento en la gestión de Plutarco Elías Calles y en los gobiernos del llamado Maximato y prácticamente desapareció durante la...

... indigenous beauty contest, become transformed by popular memory into the 2. Though no documents record the origins of the Necaxa event, it seems to have begun around 1921, when María Bibiana became the India Bonita and President Obregón visited the town. For...

... disagreed with the women's vote. On a visit to the northern border, also in 1916, María Tapia de Obregón—wife of Álvaro Obregón, then minister of war and a Sonoran military general, eventually president of Mexico (in 1920)—rejected female suffrage when asked about the rights sought by “innumerable activists...

... left church affairs in the hands of the Episcopal Subcommittee guided by de la Mora, which on balance opposed armed struggle more than the Episcopal Committee. 23 Finally, the assassination in July 1928 of president-elect Álvaro Obregón by José de León Toral, a Catholic gunman who believed himself...

... in Latin America. Nor did he go unrecognized by national leaders; in 1925 a bust of Carrillo Puerto was erected in Mexico City, and in 1928 President Álvaro Obregón unveiled a monument to his martyred ally in Mérida. 36 In contrast, Alvarado's career was shadowed by his status as a non...

...–47 don Francisco, don Domingo, don Juan, caciques Yanhuitlan 1544–45 Procesos 1999 Disregarding Christian festivals don Francisco, don Domingo, don Juan, caciques Yanhuitlan 1544–45 Procesos 1999 Source : Procesos 1912: Luis González Obregón, ed., Procesos de indios...