Plan of Ayutla

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Plan of Ayutla

Plan of Ayutla, proclaimed at Ayutla de los Libros on 1 March 1854, initiated the Mexican reform. There was little, however, to distinguish this revolutionary plan from its many less significant predecessors. Diverse groups rebelling against president/dictator Antonio López de Santa Anna ultimately followed the leadership of liberal Juan Álvarez. The Plan of Ayutla indicted Santa Anna for selling the Mesilla Valley to the United States in the 1853 Gadsden Purchase, oppressing the people, and eliminating representative government. Its prominent adherents included liberals like Ignacio Comonfort, Melchor Ocampo, and Benito Juárez, who came to dominate the new provisional government following Santa Anna's overthrow in August 1855.

See alsoÁlvarez, Juan; Comonfort, Ignacio; Gadsden Purchase; Santa Anna, Antonio López de.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Richard A. Johnson, The Mexican Revolution of Ayutla, 1854–1855 (1939).

Additional Bibliography

Carbajal, Juan Alberto. La consolidación de México como nación: Benito Juárez, la constitución de 1857, y las leyes de reforma. México: Editorial Porrua, 2006.

García Ramírez, Sergio. Plan de Ayutla: Lo de Marzo de 1854. México: Procuraduría General del República, 1987.

Monsiváis, Carlos. Las herencias ocultas de la reforma liberal del siglo XIX. México, DF: Debate, 2006.

                                         Robert J. Knowlton