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INSURGENT GUERRERO: GENARO VÁZQUEZ,
LUCIO CABAÑAS, AND THE GUERRILLA CHALLENGE
TO THE POSTREVOLUTIONARY MEXICAN STATE,
1960-1996
by
Alexander Aviña
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
(HISTORY)
August 2009
Copyright 2009 Alexander Aviña
Object Description
| Title | Insurgent Guerrero: Genaro Vázquez, Lucio Cabañas and the guerrilla challenge to the postrevolutionary Mexican State, 1960-1996 |
| Author | Avina, Alexander |
| Author email | avina@usc.edu; zapata332@yahoo.com |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | History |
| School | College of Letters, Arts and Sciences |
| Date defended/completed | 2009-05-28 |
| Date submitted | 2009 |
| Restricted until | Restricted until 16 Jul. 2011. |
| Date published | 2011-07-16 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Becker, Marjorie Ruth |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Martinez, Maria Elena Sanchez, George J. Jaikumar, Priya |
| Abstract | This dissertation chronicles the intertwined histories of two significant guerrilla movements that developed in the Mexican state of Guerrero during the late 1960s: Genaro Vázquez’s Asociación Cívica Nacional Revolucionaria (ACNR) and Lucio Cabañas’ Partido de los Pobres (PDLP). Both leaders, as rural schoolteachers with campesino backgrounds, led separate armed rural movements that sought to overthrow the one-party state of the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) and install a revolutionary democratic state ruled by the popular masses. In contrast to social science literature that represents these postrevolutionary decades as a stable“pax priísta,” underwritten by unprecedented economic growth known as the “Mexican Miracle,” this dissertation proposes to explore an incongruent episode in the traditional narration of post-1940 Mexican history; that is, the presence of widespread popular protests and mobilizations in the state of Guerrero against the PRI’s model of capitalist modernization and authoritarian rule.; Prior to taking up arms and setting up guerrilla camps in the sierras of Guerrero, the majority of ACNR and PDLP members began their activism in the political mobilizations of the Asociación Cívica Guerrerense (ACG) during the early 1960s. A heterogeneous, multi-class state-wide movement, the ACG sought to democratize state politics, internally reform the PRI and rid Guerrero of localregional “cacique” strongmen that formed a nexus of political and socio-economic power. Peaceful demonstrations intent on realizing the political rights guaranteed by the Constitution of 1917 encountered a series of massacres perpetrated by an increasingly rigid and inflexible one-party state. These massacres -- Chilpancingo 1960, Iguala 1962, Acapulco 1967, Atoyac de Alvarez 1967 -- delegitimized the “revolution-turned-government” and convinced a number of campesinos, workers, Catholic laypersons, rural schoolteachers, and university students of the necessity of revolutionary change on a national scale. Drawing upon a diverse, historical array of radical legacies and tactics -- Zapatista armed agrarianism and Che Guevara-inspired "foco" strategies to name two -- the ACNR and the PDLP fought the Mexican government throughout the late 1960s and early 70s. In the context of Latin America’s post-1959 armed left, both the ACNR and the PDLP represent an alternative political option when legal and constitutional routes appeared closed down by the authoritarianism of a one-party state.; To reconstruct the history of the ACNR and the PDLP, I draw extensively upon recently declassified and untapped Dirección Federal de Seguridad intelligence and counter-insurgency documents; military records; manifestos, speeches, letters, and communiqués produced by the guerrillas; newspaper articles; testimonial literature; and oral histories. My study analyzes the creative amalgam of radical traditions that constituted the revolutionary imaginaries of both groups and that continue to shape the “hidden transcripts” of popular organizations and guerrillas in present-day Guerrero. |
| Keyword | Mexico; Guerrero; peasant politics; guerrilla rebellions; insurgency; Latin America; cold war |
| Geographic subject (state) | Guerrero |
| Geographic subject (country) | Mexico |
| Coverage date | 1960/1996 |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m2371 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | Avina, Alexander |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@dots.usc.edu |
| Filename | etd-Avina-3023 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume29/etd-Avina-3023.pdf |
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| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@dots.usc.edu |
| Full text | INSURGENT GUERRERO: GENARO VÁZQUEZ, LUCIO CABAÑAS, AND THE GUERRILLA CHALLENGE TO THE POSTREVOLUTIONARY MEXICAN STATE, 1960-1996 by Alexander Aviña A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (HISTORY) August 2009 Copyright 2009 Alexander Aviña |
