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Journal Article
Rural Unrest and Political Control: the Destruction of the Central Campesina Independiente, 1962-1967
2014
Overview
One of the great ironies of Mexican economic and political development under the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) was that the party's grip on power depended to an alarming degree on its retaining the support of the rural poor, who benefited the least from the PRI's policies. During the 1960s, several developments combined to threaten the PRI's political dominance of the countryside, and the PRI lived in mortal dread that a viable, autonomous campesino movement might arise to challenge its own rural sector, the sclerotic Confederación Nacional Campesina (CNC). In 1962, Mexican communists founded what looked to be just such a movement, labeling it the Central Campesina Independiente (CCI). The PRI took the threat from the CCI seriously enough to deploy hardball tactics to ensure its destruction. This paper examines the PRI's tactics in eliminating any threat the CCI may have posed. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
