Militarism in Mexico
Title | Militarism in Mexico PDF eBook |
Author | Jeffrey S. Cole |
Publisher | |
Pages | 112 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Technology & Engineering |
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Mexican society is becoming militarized due to the increased use of the Mexican military in domestic affairs. This militarization is the result of three factors: the internal focus of the military, the drug war, and corruption. The internal focus of the Mexican military is based on doctrine. Mexico's drug war began in 1986 when U.S. President Reagan convinced their government that the trafficking of drugs constituted a National security threat. Corruption is pervasive in Mexico due to the combination of seven decades of authoritarian rule by the hegemonic Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and the associated effects from transnational drug trafficking. The army represents the last publicly respected institution in Mexico. During the past three years, almost the entire law enforcement apparatus to combat drug trafficking has been replaced with military soldiers and numerous key political appointees and governmental positions have been filled with Mexican generals and colonels. There are few national interests more profoundly consequential to the United States than the political stability and general welfare of Mexico. The militarization and changing civil military relations in Mexico is an important aspect in U.S. Mexico relations and must be considered impossible policy changes.
Mexican Militarism
Title | Mexican Militarism PDF eBook |
Author | Edwin Lieuwen |
Publisher | |
Pages | 224 |
Release | 1968 |
Genre | Civil supremacy over the military |
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This book examines the unique role a revolutionary army plays in the politics of Mexico. It discusses the political process which characterizes revolutions and revolutionary regimes in the twentieth century. The general problem to which the author directs his analysis is that of introducing civilian control into a political structure still dominated by the generals who successfully brought about the Revolution and who supposedly represent its ideals.
Mexico in Revolution
Title | Mexico in Revolution PDF eBook |
Author | Vicente Blasco Ibáñez |
Publisher | |
Pages | 268 |
Release | 1920 |
Genre | Mexico |
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The Modern Mexican Military, a Reassessment
Title | The Modern Mexican Military, a Reassessment PDF eBook |
Author | David F. Ronfeldt |
Publisher | |
Pages | 242 |
Release | 1984 |
Genre | Civil-military relations |
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Myths of Demilitarization in Postrevolutionary Mexico, 1920-1960
Title | Myths of Demilitarization in Postrevolutionary Mexico, 1920-1960 PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas G. Rath |
Publisher | UNC Press Books |
Pages | 258 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0807839280 |
Soldaderas in the Mexican Military
Title | Soldaderas in the Mexican Military PDF eBook |
Author | Elizabeth Salas |
Publisher | University of Texas Press |
Pages | 243 |
Release | 2010-07-04 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0292787669 |
This study explores the evolving role of women soldiers in Mexico—as both fighters and cultural symbols—from the pre-Columbian era to the present. Since pre-Columbian times, soldiering has been a traditional life experience for innumerable women in Mexico. Yet the many names given these women warriors—heroines, camp followers, Amazons, coronelas, soldadas, soldaderas, and Adelitas—indicate their ambivalent position within Mexican society. In this original study, Elizabeth Salas challenges many traditional stereotypes, shedding new light on the significance of these women. Drawing on military archival data, anthropological studies, and oral history interviews, Salas first explores the real roles played by Mexican women in armed conflicts. She finds that most of the functions performed by women easily equate to those performed by revolutionaries and male soldiers in the quartermaster corps and regular ranks. She then turns her attention to the soldadera as a continuing symbol, examining the image of the soldadera in literature, corridos, art, music, and film. Salas finds that the fundamental realities of war link all Mexican women, regardless of time period, social class, or nom de guerre.
Generals in the Palacio
Title | Generals in the Palacio PDF eBook |
Author | Roderic A. Camp |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 298 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0195073002 |
While there is considerable literature on civilian-military relations worldwide, there is as yet no study of the Mexican military. Despite their intense desire to remain unexamined, Camp's portrait of the Mexican military from 1946 to 1990 takes us inside their world to examine their values, relationships, backgrounds, education, and promotion patterns, and considers these findings in the context of Mexican society and politics. Camp provides fresh empirical data for testing claims concerning civil-military relations worldwide.