Myths of Demilitarization in Postrevolutionary Mexico, 1920-1960

At the end of the Mexican Revolution in 1920, Mexico''s large, rebellious army dominated national politics. By the 1940s, Mexico''s Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) was led by a civilian president and claimed to have depoliticized the army and achieved the bloodless pacification of the Mexican countryside through land reform, schooling, and indigenismo. However, historian Thomas Rath argues...