Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction 1
1. The Ghost of Zapata 26
2. Jaramillo, Cárdenas, and the Emiliano Zapata Cooperative 55
3. The Agrarista Tradition 85
4. "Like Juárez, with Our Offices on the Run" 108
5. "They Made Him into a Rebel" 139
6. Gender, Community, and Struggle 161
7. Judas's Embrace 184
Conclusion: The Jaramillista Legacy 211
Notes 225
Bibliography 263
Index 279

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Case study of a mid-twentieth centuryMexican agrarian movement which became a guerrilla insurgency

About the Author

Tanalís Padilla is Assistant Professor of History at Dartmouth College.

Reviews

"Rural Resistance in the Land of Zapata sets a new standard for historical studies of Mexican social protest and state repression after 1940. Drawing on rich campesino testimonies and state surveillance reports, Tanalis Padilla illuminates the seamy underbelly of the 'Golden Age' decades, puncturing any lingering, hegemonic notions of the PRI's 'perfect dictatorship.' More than an engrossing and poignant account of the Jaramillistas' unremitting electoral and insurgent struggles to compel the Official Party to fulfill its agrarian promises, this volume provides critical insights into the nation's broader political experience and the dynamic nature of Latin American peasant movements."--Gilbert M. Joseph, co-editor of Everyday Forms of State Formation: Revolution and the Negotiation of Rule in Modern Mexico "A wonderful example of regional history that is embedded in the history of post-World War II Mexico. Students of agrarian movements, contemporary Mexican history, and the grand drama of peasant struggles over land and social justice will find this book obligatory reading."--Barry Carr, author of Marxism and Communism in Twentieth-Century Mexico