From Spent Cartridges to Militarization

The Military and the Political Right in Modern Mexico

Bibliographic Data

ID4045830
AuthorsThomas Rath (0000-0001-7158-577X, University College London, corresponding author)
Year2016
Publication date2016-01-25
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueNuevo mundo mundos nuevos (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1626-0252 • E-ISSN: 1626-0252
PublisherOpenEdition (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.4000/nuevomundo.68869
OpenAlexW2278202548
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited13

This papers examines the relationship between the armed forces and the political Right in Mexico since 1920. It identifies two main phases. From 1920 to the 1950s, right-wing officers sought direct political power, but factionalism, anticlericalism, and civil-military tensions hindered their efforts. From the 1960s to the present, the military played an important role in domestic policing and counterinsurgency, culminating in Enrique Calderón's Drug War. Despite controversial incidents of repression, military policing has often enjoyed broad public and bipartisan support. The paper concludes that increasing militarization and the Drug War have offered a useful stimulus to the historiography

Criminology · Historiography · Militarization · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Spanish Civil War · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · Law · Political and Social Dynamics in Chile and Latin America · Politics and Society in Latin America

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