Mexico's Relations with Latin America during the Cárdenas Era

by Amelia M. Kiddle

Overview

This book examines culture and diplomacy in Mexico's relations with the rest of Latin America during the presidency of Lózaro Córdenas (1934-1940). Drawing on archival research throughout Latin America, the author demonstrates that Córdenas's representation of Mexico as a revolutionary nation contributed to the formation of Mexican national identity and spread the legacy of the Mexican Revolution of 1910 beyond Mexico's borders. Córdenas did more than any other president to fulfill the goals of the revolution, incorporating the masses into the political life of the nation and implementing land reform, resource nationalization, and secular public education, and his government promoted the idea that these reforms represented a path to social, political, and economic development for the entire region. Kiddle offers a colorful and detailed account of the way Cardenista diplomacy was received in the rest of Latin America and the influence his policies had throughout the continent.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826356901
Publisher:	University of New Mexico Press
Publication date:	10/15/2016
Pages:	328
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Amelia M. Kiddle is an associate professor of Spanish American history at the University of Calgary. She is the coeditor of Populism in Twentieth Century Mexico: The Presidencies of Lózaro Córdenas and Luis Echeverría.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations ix

Preface and Acknowledgments xi

Abbreviations xvii

Introduction Facing South 1

1 La Política del Buen Amigo and Its Practitioners 15

2 Socialist Education and the Religious Question in Latin America 47

3 Repúblicas Rojas: The Spanish Civil War and Mexican Relations with Latin America 81

4 Selling the Oil Expropriation of 1938 109

5 Mexican Development, Hacia Afuera 137

6 The Brigada Mexicana, the Durango, and Goodwill Missions to Latin America 169

Conclusion El Faro de America 199

Appendix 1 Diplomatic Representation by Latin American Country, 1934-1940 203

Appendix 2 Diplomats Posted to Latin America, 1934-1940 207

Notes 211

Bibliography 263

Index 295

Editorial Reviews

"Amelia Kiddle provides a much-needed inter-American analysis of Mexican policy in the 1930s. . . . With a truly adept multiarchival methodology, Kiddle finds that Cárdenas's government invested significant efforts in improving the country's international relations."—Aaron Coy Moulton, The Latin Americanist

"As she does in all her case studies, Kiddle marshals an impressive array of documentation to substantiate her claims. . . . Thanks to Kiddle's dogged research, we now have a fuller picture of Mexico's influence on Latin America."—Robert F. Alegre, Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies

"A very well-written book, extremely useful for academics and yet clearly accessible for students."—Pacific Historical Review

"This book is a most welcome addition to the literature on Cárdenas."—Journal of Latin American Studies

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