Topics

• Mexico Obregon to Cardenas 1930s

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Villa’s Assassination

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1bOJu6V728&feature=relmfu

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Plutarco Elias Calles

President 1924-1928

• Sonora

• Problems with the U.S.

• 1926 “Ley Calles” – Anti-clerical

– Church schools closed down

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Cristeros Rebellion 1926-1929 • 3 year Church Strike

• Attack on rural schools

• Jalisco, Michoacán, Guanajuato

• 1928 Obregon assassination • http://www.executedtoday.com/2009/02/09/1929-jose-de-leon-toral-assassin-of-

alvaro-obregon/

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKeOHZ9NWao

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“Perfect Dictatorship”

1929-2000

• Founded 1929 PNR – Plutarco Calles

– Inclusive: leftist to capitalists

• Dedazo – (candidates hand-picked)

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Club America

1916

Owned by Azcárraga family 1959

Televisa

1955

Azcárraga family

1988 90% of Televisa’s ads favored the PRI

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PAN Founded 1939 Manuel Gomez Morin

Founded 1989

Cuauhtémoc Cardenas

Lazaro Cardenas 1934-1940

Castillo de Chapultepec Los Pinos

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Lazaro Cardenas Administration

• Agrarian Reform – Restoration of Ejidos

• 1938 nationalizes the oil industry – Pemex (Petroleos Mexicanos)

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Spanish Civil War 1936-1939

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• U.S. Great Depression – On October 29, 1929 (Black Tuesday) the stock market crashed.

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The Rise of PRI Cardenas

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1bOJu6V728&feature=relmfu

• Villa to Cardenas

• 4:30 mins

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Mexico’s Golden Age of Cinema 1935-1959

• Alla En El Rancho Grande 1936

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Stars of the Golden Era of Mexican Cinema

• Maria Felix

• Pedro Infante

• Mario Moreno “Cantinflas”

• German Valdes “Tin Tan”

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• MARIA FELIX DOÑA DIABLA

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozHEiJpg5Ow

• Tizoc - Parte 1

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmuF0XYcuMI

• Around the World in Eighty Days 1956

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJr-_-VezmQ

• Tin Tan El hijo desobediente 2 • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdFXFGyltfc&feature=fvst

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Mexican Muralist Movements

• Jose Vasconcelos

– Artist served the Revolution

• Diego Rivera

• Jose Clemente Orozco

• David Alfaro Siqueiros

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Mexican Muralists

• Diego Rivera

– Indian motifs

– Europeans vilified

• Frida Kahlo

– human suffering

2010

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1935

History of

Mexico

National

Palace

Agrarian Leader

Zapata , 1931

La Civilizacion

Tarasca, 1950

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1930s Man at the Crossroads

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Self-portrait on the Borderline Between Mexico and the United States, 1932 The Two Fridas, 1939

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Cortes and Malinche 1926 Jose Clemente Orozco

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Hospicio Cabañas Guadalajara, Mexico

1933 Orozco Mural at Dartmouth College

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David A. Siqueiros

• From the Dictatorship of Porfirio Diaz to the Revolution—The Revolutionaries by

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Tropical America 1932

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Asu no Shinwa (Myth of Tomorrow)

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Asu no Shinwa (Myth of Tomorrow)

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Mexican Muralists

• LA TORMENTA QUE AZOTO MEXICO pt7/8

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GvZxHG6Y6Q&feature=relmfu

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