During the mid-to late 1930s, rural activism surged in the coffee-growing region of southern Chiapas and north-western Guatemala. This article examines the causes and impacts of sustained campesino protests at the grassroots level on the Mexican side of the border. The porous border between the two nations hindered the development of centralised power networks that prevailed in other parts of Chiapas. Campesinos and reformist federal government officials such as teachers and agrarian engineers built alliances that challenged the power of the coffee growers. This article explores the process of negotiation that occurred among campesinos, federal bureaucrats, regional authorities and elite coffee planters in order both to implement and to challenge agrarian reform.
En este libro, la autora acude a consideraciones teóricas recientes sobre la formación del Estado, las identidades nacionales y trasnacionales y la ciudadanía para conocer la manera en que gobiernos, elites y trabajadores marginados reclamaron y desafiaron las fronteras nacionales. El libro ofrece ideas del desarrollo de comunidades trasnacionales, nexos entre identidad y ciudadanía y las dificultades de integrar grupos dispares en una nación cohesionada; al combinar historias orales con investigaciones de archivos locales, regionales y nacionales construye una historia de los trabajadores rurales.
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