MumblingMantras

Board games, martial arts, books, history podcasts, teaching others, learning something new, and traveling are all some of my interests.

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@JenPurple3 I found this interesting as well. It really shows how important a solid teaching force is to national development. Teachers armed with not only scholastic but practical skillsets can help change a nation for the better.

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@MattPonds Relatives of the 43 student activists that went missing 6 years ago marched recently demanding answers. The violence against students and dissidents in Mexico is not a thing of the past.

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@JenPurple3 Assassination seems to be the go to move during this era of Mexican politics.

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@SauceMj The PRI are still a force in Mexican politics having won the Presidency as recently as 2012.

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@JenPurple3 Sadly, part of the demise of Zapata and Villa was Carranza issuing his own statement of Agrarian reform. Something that after the war Carranza would not enforce.

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@JenPurple3 State broadcasting is a great way to cultivate messages for the population. By retaining control of the airwaves the Mexican leadership could ensure that dissident messages did not receive a broad audience.

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@JenPurple3 This would largely fail as Catholicism has been entrenched in the area for centuries and local customs and culture have integrated the religion extensively.

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@CNMBrandon @tajmahalo1133 Going to the historical source is an important aspect of viewing current information. Only in this way can individuals weigh the historical knowledge of the event against how it is being portrayed by modern politicians or media outlets

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#hist466 Modern political movements in Mexico have attempted to link their cause with that of the revolution, utilizing established myths for continued political purposes. In the U.S. the Tea Party movement is a similar example.

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#hist466 McDonnel shows the similarity in authoritarian tendencies between Trump and Obrador, even though they hail from the right and left wings respectively.

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#hist466 after reading Joseph and Brachenau and then jumping in to the LA Times article I found it interesting as Lopez Obrador took up a significant amount of space in chapter 9 in which he had failed twice to obtain the presidency. The third times the charm!

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#hist466 McDonnel writes on behalf of the LA Times an article that shows two populist leaders from the right and left wings and a looming trade war (at the time) between Mexico and the U.S.

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#hist466 On page 210 Joseph and Brachenau talk about the change in the revolutionary family metaphor where the president is the patriarchal father figure. This coincides with global movements that looked to reform views on gender.

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#hist466 Joseph and Brachenau write about modern Mexican political movements such as Lopez Obradors Party of the Democratic Revolution and LGBT movements in Mexico. Are these continuations of revolution?

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The PRI utilizes Televisa as a propoganda machine and helped create and disseminate Mexican culture in the the second half of the 20th century #hist466

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Environmental degradation is a lasting effect of the PRI in Mexico (Joseph and Bachenau, page 200) This goes hand in hand with the consumption based economy that was being driven post WWII #hist466

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Joseph and Buchenau state "To be a patriotic Mexican now meant to be a good consumer" (page 199) This follows the global ascendancy of capitalism where many competing methods of government could make the same quoted statement #hist466

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@Eliazar61826971 I felt that Cardenas as president was most true to the ideals of land reform. Yes many of his reforms did not work out in the long run but he was actively trying to make good on the promises of the revolution.

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@wnmujoshr This can be seen in the U.S. shortly after the revolution with the canonization of works by Thomas Paine, Benjamin Franklin, and the Federalist papers.

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@dlrwnmu Rather than heal wounds or change minds I believe in this case all of the original revolutionaries had been assassinated. Now the state was free to shape the image of the revolution and the memories of those individuals.