Seriously Funny: Mexican Political Jokes as Social Resistance

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273 Index Abascal, Carlos, 207, 211, 212 Aburto, 172 Aguilar, Rubén, 201 Aguirre, Ramón, 166 albur (play on words), 68, 69, 251 Alegría, Rosa Luz, 56, 152 Alemán, Miguel, 122, 137, 138, 140, 147, 148, 247, 258 Ali Baba, 122, 139, 165 allegory, 22, 33 Almazán, Marco, 16, 258 alternancia, 13, 239 Álvarez, Griselda, 81 Álvarez, José Francisco, 125 America (i.e., United States): and Americans, 16, 24, 41, 65, 85, 97, 105, 110, 160, 220, 249, 254; banks in, 183; dollars, 186; elite, 58; growth of, 205; history of, 200; leaders of, 258; national anthem and, 206; in North America, 168; and North American Free Trade Agreement, 170; nation, 220; parody in, 32; perspective of, 25; scholars in, 117; and satellite, 107; soccer team of, 124; states in, 64; television in, 6; universities in, 258 AMLO. See López Obrador, Andrés Manuel Amor, Pita, 140 anagrams, 6, 10, 38, 39, 94, 95 Anáhuac, valley of, 98 Arabs, 77 Aristotle, 31 Assad, 45 authoritarianism, ix, 4, 20, 37, 48, 49, 50, 54, 61, 83, 93, 97, 109, 118, 123, 143, 195, 199, 203, 237 Azcárraga, 230 Aztecs, 124, 198; blood deity of, 127; civilization, 97; emperor, 100, 101, 125; jokes about, 127; leadership of, 124; treasures of, 124; warriors, 98. See also Cuauhtémoc (Aztec emperor); Huitzilopochtli (Aztec blood deity) Bank of Mexico, 39 Barajas, Rafael (El Fisgón), 6, 22, 31, 46, 245 Bartlett, Manuel, 159, 166 Baudelaire, Charles, 19 beast, 165 Bergson, Henri, 15, 16, 25, 27, 29, 31, 32, 33, 42 Blair, Tony, 210 Borges, Jorge Luis, 200, 224 Borgues, José Luis, 200, 203 Borunda, Teófilo, 77, 78 Brezhnev, 59, 60, 259 Buchwald, Art, 16 Buckingham Palace, 112 Bush, George, 54, 164, 165, 167, 170, 201, 210 Bush, George W., 6, 42, 45, 54, 199, 204, 205, 206, 208, 211 274 • Index Calderón, Felipe, 176, 221, 222, 223, 224, 225, 226, 227, 228, 238, 239, 255, 260; administration of, xi Calles, Plutarco Elías, 34, 85, 88, 94, 132, 133, 134 Camacho, Manuel Ávila, 3, 136, 167 Camacho, Maximino Ávila, 136, 137 Cancún, 148, 149 Cantinflas, 251 Cárdenas, Cuauhtémoc, 159, 162, 164, 170, 174, 179, 187, 191, 199, 216, 259 Cárdenas, Lazaro, 11, 85, 92, 93, 101, 134, 135, 162 cargueros, 12 caricature, 16, 21, 22, 30, 36; political, 16, 22 Carlos ’n’ Charlie’s, 171 Carpizo, Jorge, 189, 208 Carranza, Venustiano, 101, 130, 131 Castro, Fidel , 53, 105, 205, 220, 244, 249 Catholic Church, 19; and society, 76; and ultra-right secretary of labor, 207 Catón, 16, 227, 232 caudillo, 141 Ceausescu, 59, 60 Cedillo revolt, 135 Center for Media and Public Affairs, 6, 49, 54 Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 40, 90, 241, 246 Chase Manhattan Bank, 40 Cheney, Dick, 41, 42 Chiapas, 103, 118, 173, 187, 255 Chihuahua, 78, 90, 260 chilango, 64, 103, 180 China, 44; and Chinese, 15, 24, 25, 44, 126, 241 chingar (fuck), 71, 72; chingarselo, 191 Christianity, 67 Chuayfett, 190 Chun, President, 59 CIA. See Central Intelligence Agency científicos, 94 client relationship, 6, 22 Clinton, Bill, 58, 183, 184, 193, 201, 220; era of, 34 Collor de Melo, 174 colonialism, 139; colonial period, 67, 68, 123; and domination, 109; and heritage, 69; and inheritance, 250 Colosio, Luis Donaldo, 3, 118, 172, 173, 178, 181, 188, 243 comedy, 21, 27, 31, 32, 35, 249 Compañía Nacional de Subsistencias Populares (CONASUPO), 135 CONALEP, 63 CONASUPO. See Compañía Nacional de Subsistencias Populares Conde, Ninel, 229, 230 Confederación de Trabajadores de México (CTM), 138, 166 Cortés, Hernán, 123, 124 Corwin’s Law, 20 Creel, Santiago, 206, 211, 212, 224, 239 creole, 69, 154 CTM. See Confederación de Trabajadores de México Cuauhtémoc (Aztec emperor), 101, 124 Cuba, 53, 142, 195, 205, 249 Day of the Dead: festivities, 63, 68. See also Guelaguetza de Gaulle, Charles, 59 de la Madrid, Miguel, 33, 39, 56, 86, 103, 156, 157, 158, 159, 160, 161, 162, 165, 169, 183, 184, 210, 238, 244, 247, 249, 254, 256, 257, 258, 259 de la Selva, Rogerio, 138 del Río, Eduardo. See Rius d’Estaing, Giscard, 99 devil, 19, 28, 131, 204 Díaz, Porfirio, 31, 33, 36, 46, 94, 100, 123, 127, 135, 155, 261 Díaz Durán, Fernando, 144 Index • 275 Díaz Ordaz, Gustavo, 113, 119, 142, 143, 144, 145...