Mexico's Relations with Latin America during the Cárdenas Era

Amelia M. Kiddle

• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN: 9780826356901
• eBook ISBN: 9780826356918
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Mexican History
• Index: History

This book examines culture and diplomacy in Mexico's relations with the rest of Latin America during the presidency of Lázaro Cárdenas (1934–1940). Drawing on archival research throughout Latin America, the author demonstrates that Cárdenas'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. Cárdenas 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.

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Preface and Acknowledgments
• Abbreviations
• Introduction: Facing South
• 1: La Política del Buen Amigo and Its Practitioners
• 2: Socialist Education and the Religious Question in Latin America
• 3: Repúblicas Rojas: The Spanish Civil War and Mexican Relations with Latin America
• 4: Selling the Oil Expropriation of 1938
• 5: Mexican Development, Hacia Afuera
• 6: The Brigada Mexicana, the Durango, and Goodwill Missions to Latin America
• Conclusion: El Faro de América
• Appendix 1: Diplomatic Representation by Latin American Country, 1934–1940
• Appendix 2: Diplomats Posted to Latin America,1934–1940
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index
• Back Cover