By Carlos B. Gil
This quantity goals to highlight six of up to date Mexico's most vital competition figures. In-depth interviews performed by means of Carlos B. Gil introduce the reader to such more and more influential leaders as Jesus Gonzalez Schmal, of the conservative PAN; Cuauhtemoc Cardenas, the main profitable competition candidate in Mexico's heritage; and Jorge Alcocer Villanueva, who has lengthy helped direct a number of offshoots of the Communist celebration in Mexico. Dr. Gil has supplemented the interviews with biographical sketches of the leaders and chapters at the improvement of the Mexican celebration method, the hot upward thrust of competition events, and the starting to be effect of Mexican-Americans on competition applicants.
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30 As he told a friendly critic, he wanted to create a political organization that would fuse all of the revolutionary groups interested in working toward democracy. Too much "sterile" struggling had been wasted on elections, he insisted, and the moment Page 16 had finally come to set aside boundless aspirations and seek the right path. It would be possible to channel the ambitions of our undisciplined politicians into a program that could be approved beforehand. With an organism of this sort, the disorders that arise with each and every election could be avoided and, bit by bit, our institutions could become stronger with each democratic exercise; this way, democracy could be achieved in all its fullness some day.
An important contemporary participant in national politics wrote years later that many obregonistas quickly assumed that Calles, wanting to continue in office or select his own successor, had ordered Obregón's death. 29 To prevent the various disaffected caudillosespecially obregonistasfrom shooting their way into the executive office, Calles acted quickly. 30 As he told a friendly critic, he wanted to create a political organization that would fuse all of the revolutionary groups interested in working toward democracy.
26 The official party arose from this state of affairs. The chieftains were not confined to the provinces; they ruled the country from Mexico City as well. In the later 1910s and in the 1920s the nation's leaders were all caudillosthose who had survived the revolution. 27 All three were norteños. They served their country as the rough-and-ready leaders who literally shot their way to power during the tumult of the revolution, in contrast to the civilian presidents who would later peacefully take their place in the capitol without having bivouacked anywhere.