Forced Marches: Soldiers and Military Caciques in Modern Mexico

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271 Index Abrams, Philip, 266 Acosta, Miguel, 150, 155, 159 Afro-Mexicans, 112; pardos tiradores (black and mulatto riflemen), 25 agiotistas (“loansharks”), 17 agraristas. See paramilitaries Agua Prieta, Revolution of, 137 Aguilar, Cándido, 215, 218, 228 Alamillo Flores, Luis, 224–26, 236 alcohol, abuse of, 81, 95, 97–100, 102 Alemán Valdes, Miguel, 10, 126–27, 196, 211, 215, 219, 237; assassination attempt against, 224; and near-coup of 1948 against, 223–26 Allende, Miguel, 3 Almazán, Juan Andreu, 149, 188, 205n92 Alvarado, Salvador, 18, 31 Álvarez, Juan, 53–56, 61–62, 69 Amaro, Joaquín, 9, 115–19, 123, 127–28, 136–37, 176, 211, 214, 224–25 Anaya, Juan Pablo, 33 anticlericalism, 18, 145–47, 175, 187, 191, 251–52 antipolitics, 136–37, 144–45, 148, 155 Arenas China, Manuel, 116 Arroyo, Arnulfo, assassination of, 85 artillery, 7, 9, 15, 25, 50, 99, 143, 211 Ávila Camacho, Manuel, 10, 118, 125, 160, 187, 194–95 Ávila Camacho, Maximino, 12, 143, 153, 192–94, 215 bandits, 4, 6, 8, 26, 82, 127, 184, 191, 203n62, 217, 222, 245 Bantjes, Adrian, 128 Batis, Luis, 139, 141, 146 Battle of Ocotlán, 115, 118, 137 Berriozábal, Felipe, 87 Bourbon dynasty, 3, 5, 17–18, 24; reforms of, 13 Brandenburg, Frank, 227 brass cacicazgos (territorial domains of military bosses). See caciquismo; military Bravo Izquierdo, Donato, 15, 192–93 Brazilian Army, historiography of, 212 Brewster, Keith, 112 Butler, Matthew, 145, 157 caciquismo (boss rule), 211–12, 230, 244, 247–50 Calderón, Felipe, 189, 238 Calles, Plutarco Elías, 8–9, 115, 136, 148, 175, 177, 197, 210 Callismo, 157, 179, 183–84 272 • Index Camp, Roderic A., 128 Cantón Rosado, Francisco, 6 capitalism, 258 Cárdenas, Lázaro, 9, 111, 118, 122, 136, 149, 173–74, 177–83, 185–92, 194, 196–98, 215, 257–59, 261, 264, 267; in 1948 crisis, 224–26 Cardenismo, 125–26, 160, 173–74, 178–79, 182–85, 187–89, 192–94, 196–97, 257–58 Carmagnani, Marcelo, 111 Carranza, Venustiano, 7–8, 31, 137 castas. See mestizo Caste War of the Yucatán, 5, 16, 29–32, 35, 39, 52 Castrejón, Adrián, 219 cavalry, 7, 9, 12, 25, 50, 57, 66–68, 85, 137–38, 140, 143, 152, 157, 188, 211; Sixth regiment, 96, 99–100, 139, 147, 156; Fifty-first regiment, 153 Cedillo, Saturnino, 41, 149–50, 157, 161, 187–88, 210 Centeno, Miguel Angel, 266n4 Chagova, Cutberto, 116 Chamula. See Maya Charis Castro, Heliodoro, 16, 110–13, 115–29, 247–49, 264 Chiapas, 17, 32, 41–42, 52, 113, 119, 137, 182, 196, 211 Chihuitán, 114 child soldiers, 12 Church (Roman Catholic), 1, 4, 12–13, 18, 27–28, 141, 145, 147–48, 151, 251–52 científicos (“scientific ones”), 6, 87 Cinco de Mayo (anniversary of the Battle of the Puebla), 5 Ciudad Ixtecpec, Oaxaca, 113–14, 121 Ciudad Juárez, Baja California Norte, 150, 158, 238 civilismo (civilized, modern behavior), 82–83, 97, 100, 102 class identity, 180–83 clergy, 3, 18, 34, 145–48 Coahuila, 115, 117 Colegio Militar, 83, 85, 116, 176, 184, 224–225 Colima, 116, 140–44, 146, 156 Colombia, security policy compared to that of Mexico, 223 colonias militares (military colonies), 31–32 colonization, 248 Comonfort, Ignacio, 54–58, 60, 62, 68–72 Confederación de Trabajadores de México (CTM), 124–25, 181, 188, 193, 196 Confederación Regional Obrera Mexicana (CROM), 140, 192–93 Constitution of 1917, 175, 180, 186 Constitutionalists, 7, 12–17, 111 Cora (indigenous group), 111 corridos (popular ballads), 7, 21n19, 224 corruption, 14, 18, 142, 214–15, 219–25, 243, 246, 254; carrancear (neologism referring to military corruption in the Revolution), 14; as part of the “business of war,” 17 Cosi Joeza, 118 Cossacks, 129 Costa Rica, security services of, 211, 230 coup d’état attempted in 1948, 223–26 Crehan, Kate, 267n10 criollos (creoles, American-born Spaniards ), 3–4, 24–25 cristeros, 9, 115, 139–47, 152, 156, 161, 214 Cristero War, 8, 10, 110, 142, 144, 152, 157, 183–84, 192 Cruz, Roberto, 137 Daves, William, 12–13 Davis Jr., Thomas. See antipolitics Day of the Soldier, 180–82, 193 defensas rurales. See paramilitaries defensas sociales. See paramilitaries de Iturbide, Agustín, 4, 25–26, 32 de la Huerta, Adolfo, 8 delahuertistas, 15, 115, 137, 214 democracy, 255–56, 265 Departamento General de Investigaciones Políticas (General Department of Political Investigation), agents of, 220, 222–27 [3.137.185.180...