San Francisco Javier entre dos continentes (review)
roots of Jaramillismo: the mechanics of economic exploitation in the sugar mill; the alienation caused by conscription and the rifle sanitario; the anatomy of election-rigging; the use of the military to put down rural resistance; and the traditional alliance of politicians, landowners, and soldiers against peasant colonists. It is generalized as far as the exiguous literature allows, with comparisons to Baja California, Puebla, and Sonora, as well as to later movements in Morelos, Chiapas, Chihuahua, Guerrero, and Veracruz. It rests on work that is valuable, pioneering, and which significandy advances debate on the fundamental nature of postrevolutionary Mexico.