...J. Lloyd Mecham La iglesia y el estado en el Ecuador. (La personalidad de la iglesia en el Modus Vivendi celebrado entre la Santa Sede y el Ecuador.) By Larrea Juan Ignacio . Sevilla , 1954 . Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas . Escuela de Estudios Hispano-Americanos...

... Finally, one cannot help but wonder what precisely Reich makes of all this. He eschews explicit value judgments, leaving the reader to wonder if the Church-State modus vivendi was a good or bad thing. To me, this is a story of two unresponsive institutions closing ranks to suppress popular demands...

... played out in three regions of the Mexican state of Michoacán. A central argument is that the Catholic Church hierarchy, by reining in the Rerum Novarum –inspired Catholic activists of the Liga Nacional Defensora de la Libertad Religiosa with the modus vivendi that ended the Cristiada of 1926–29...

... of scholars to explain and illuminate the various approaches of these disparate groups in their search for a modus vivendi. The result is a volume rich in detail, insight, rigor, and original research. Yelvington opens the debate with a broad but incisive analysis of Trinidadian ethnicity from...

... characteristics of power generation and distribution permitted the modus vivendi. The book is an elaboration of a doctoral dissertation based on extensive field work and residence in Brazil. It is an excellent study. It does focus, however, almost exclusively on the power situation in the industrial heartland...

... returned the favor under Caldera’s presidency (1969-74), COPEI cooperated with AD’s President Carlos Andrés Pérez (1974-79), and AD today cooperates with President Luis Herrera Campins (1979-84). Venezuela’s lesser political parties rightfully complain that this apparent modus vivendi smacks...

..., a meeting that Redinger indicates ultimately led to the Modus Vivendi of 1929. This agreement ended the clerical strike initi ated in Mexico by the church in 1926. In one of his useful appendixes, Redinger includes statements exchanged between Calles and Burke. Other chapters consider individual clerics...

... such as Paris and London, as the elites saw in Europe a reference for the modus vivendi they wished to follow. In examining this modernizing vision, the author also exposes significant changes in family structures within the elite, highlighting the different roles and expectations for family members depending...

... that the 1929 modus vivendi arrangement was a realistic solution. For while the author’s evidence concerning the rebellion’s magnitude is persuasive, I am less convinced than he that the Cristeros could have overthrown the government or forced a settlement very different from the one reached...

... Cuban officer recalled that “we dreamed of revolution” (p. 204). But the Cuban interventions also involved realpolitik. Throughout the 1960s, the United States spurned Cuban efforts to reach a bilateral modus vivendi. Cubans feared a U.S. invasion, and Castro and his advisors concluded that the United...

... and social movement. Over generations, campesinos had developed a relationship with terratenientes comprising an interdependent, mutually acceptable moral economy, which both sides saw as roughly just. By the early twentieth century, however, this modus vivendi had weakened, arriving at the point...

... to the Madrid government. Indultos covered “enormous” amounts of inbound cargo. Typical of the modus vivendi (collusion?) between government and the Lower Andalusian private sector of Spanish and foreign resident merchants was the role of the indulto in papering over the acknowledged undervaluing...

... of Uriburu and Ramón Castillo. In the final analysis, the Concordancia could offer the unions only tolerance. It was uncomfortable with their presence but unable either to eliminate or to ignore them. By 1943, consequently, labor was frustrated and seeking a new modus vivendi. Horowitz’ study is a major...

...” for Brazil, initially insisted upon. Eventually Rome agreed to payment terms of 60 percent in cotton and 40 percent in other products. 29 The worsening Italo-Ethiopian crisis led to sober reflection in Rio de Janeiro, and it was not until August 1936 that a commercial modus vivendi was signed...

... push of seringueiros , the expansiveness of Brazilian nationalism, and the adroit diplomacy of Rio Branco all combined against Bolivia’s dream of greatness. In the end, the rich and extensive Acre brought to Bolivia nothing but defeat and despair. The modus vivendi of March 21, 1903 in turn led...

..., intemperate; this was the discourse, though, and reading between the lines we see that the insults masked coded invitations to détente. In the end, an imperfect solution to the constitutional requirement for priests to register was found empirically, without which the Arreglos and modus vivendi of the 1930s...

... for selecting an army career; instead the career had become a modus vivendi through which officers pursued personal advantages. Fatalism had developed on all levels of the army, especially among the junior officers who tended to emulate their seniors. In its drive to restore professionalism, however...

... vivendi with the holistic society and the church, so as to assure social peace—all the while violating the liberal Constitution of 1857, which remains in effect and is invoked as an ideal. This second course was the compromise solution adopted by Don Porfirio, who ensured his own permanence in office...

... unsuccessfully numerous times in the past: a negotiated peace. In May 1897 the Peace of Ortiz was concluded and signed with much pomp and ceremony by General Luis Torres and chief Tetabiate. The government thought it had finally reached a modus vivendi with these intractable people. The peace agreement...

... of the weekly allowances provided by the convents, and thus relieving the nunneries of the burden of providing food and other basic necessities. 59 The convents welcomed this measure, and it became a modus vivendi for most of them in the eighteenth century. Thus when the reform of religious observance...