The End Of The Mexican Revolution

The beginning point in any major political movement is usually easily tracked; a person's death

, or a particularly unjust law, can mobilize the masses to finally rise up and seek justice. Sometimes the end of fighting can be harder to identify, because once a full-scale rebellion is no longer a mass undertaking of the people, smaller factions can continue their own personal crusades for years. Such was the environment of the Mexican Revolution; it began in 1910 with the aim of ousting dictator Porfirio Diaz and continued on for years, as the endpoint for the rebellion became murky.

It's agreed that the most violent part of the revolution ended in 1920, when President Venustiano Carranza was assassinated. He created the 1917 Constitution, which still governs Mexico to this day, and was effective in helping to overthrow one of the most infamous villains of the decade. His successor, Alvaro Obregon, instituted a great deal of these new provisions and worked to get the war-torn country back on its feet. Former president Adolfo de la Huerta, instigated one of the sporadic uprisings that continued on into 1923.

Things got worse when Obregon's handpicked successor, Plutarco Calles, was a fanatical atheist who persecuted the Catholic Church; the resulting revolt lead to three years of fighting from 1926 to 1929 that is now known as the Cristero War. Behind the scenes the President continued to pull the political strings of Mexico, even after his term ended in 1928, as he installed puppet leaders and called himself their political chieftain. This came to a halt finally in 1934, with the election of Lazaro Cardenas to head office.

Most major fighting ceased at the end of the Cristero War (1929), and it is mainly this period that is picked by historians as the final phase of the revolution. However, the corruption in politics continued, rampant, as Calles became the most powerful man in Mexico and the office of President increasingly lost its validity. That's why others feel that it was the election (and eventual peaceful resignation) of Lazaro Cardenas which marked the true conclusion of the rebellion which had cost so many lives.

Cardenas was a leftist and a bit of a radical, but he was also extremely honest. Worker unions and cooperatives were encouraged by him, education programs were set up for citizens, agrarian land was returned to the peasants and. It wasn't until his presidency that the 1917 constitution was fully and effectively implemented and revolutionary whispers ceased entirely. He also was the first Mexican president to voluntarily relinquish his power at the end of his term. A first in Mexico's political history, it was a transition that happened in 1940. This political solidarity allowed for trustworthiness to creep back into the government, finally accomplishing what had been started thirty years before.

by: Robert Nickel

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