| | Journal of Social History: Cardenas Compromised: The Failure of Reform in Postrevolutionary Yucatan - Book Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | Despite cardenista attempts at remaking the state government and electoral politics, Yucatecan politicos maintained and consolidated their power by playing upon local social and political divisions, manipulating regionalist sentiment (notably through the hero cult of the "proletarian martyr" Felipe Carrillo Puerto), and exploiting the weakness and equivocation of the federal government. |
 | | Hence, within a year after the high point of federal involvement in Yucatan during the 1937 "Crusade of the Mayab", an "official camarilla" was able to ensconce itself in the state government, where it would remain for decades to follow. |
 | | Based on a thorough and compelling regional examination of the caciques and camarillas of the Cardenas years, Fallaw rejects the prevailing characterization of the period, whether by populists, revisionists or postrevisionists, as one in which state power was centralized or consolidated in the federal government. |
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