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  • Myths of Demilitarization in Postrevolutionary Mexico, 1920-1960

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    At the end of the Mexican Revolution in 1920, Mexico’s large, rebellious army dominated national politics. By the 1940s, Mexico’s Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) was led by a civilian president and claimed to have depoliticized the army and achieved the bloodless pacification of the Mexican countryside through land reform, schooling, and indigenismo. However, historian Thomas Rath argues, ... Read more

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  • The Dread Plague and the Cow Killers

    The Politics of Animal Disease in Mexico and the World

    by Thomas Rath ...
    Series series Cambridge Latin American Studies
    Between 1947 and 1954, the Mexican and US governments waged a massive campaign against a devastating livestock plague, aftosa or foot-and-mouth disease. Absorbing over half of US economic aid to Latin America and involving thousands of veterinarians and ranchers from both countries, battalions of Mexican troops, and scientists from Europe and the Americas, the campaign against aftosa was ... Read more

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