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Free Article Plutarco Elias Calles and the Mexican Revolution.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Historian; 12/22/2008
Free Article Plutarco Elias Calles and the Mexican Revolution.(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 5/1/2007
Free Article Church and State Education in Revolutionary Mexico City.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Journal of Social History; 12/22/2004

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Plutarco Elias Calles and the Mexican Revolution.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Historian; 12/22/2008; ; 700+ words ; Plutarco Elias Calles and the Mexican Revolution. By Jurgen...Littlefield, 2007. Pp. xxvii, 275.) Plutarco Elias Calles is remembered in Mexico as one of...presidency was modeled on that of Calles. Plutarco Elias Calles and the Mexican Revolution... Read more
Plutarco Elias Calles and the Mexican Revolution.(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 5/1/2007; 175 words ; 9780742537491 Plutarco Elias Calles and the Mexican Revolution. Buchenau...offers a political biography of Plutarco Elias Calles (1877-1945), a founder of Mexico...in 1934. The biography portrays Calles as an authoritarian populist whose... Read more
Church and State Education in Revolutionary Mexico City.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Journal of Social History; 12/22/2004; ; 578 words ; ...origins in the implementation by the administration of Elias Plutarco Calles of the anti-clerical provisions of the 1917 constitution...Mexico entered a period of crisis as president Elias Plutarco Calles began to impose the anticlerical measures contained... Read more
Milagrería con cargo al erario.(supuesta mala gestión de Luis Reynoso Femat, gobernador de Aguascalientes)
Magazine article from: Proceso; 11/12/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...semiáridos campos y las aguas de la presa Plutarco Elias Calles. La efigie de tono cobrizo no está...Unidos. En el municipio, 40% de las calles carece de pavimento y 60% de las aceras...Sánchez advierte: Junto a la presa Plutarco Elías Calles, a 60 metros, se encuentra la laguna... Read more
In the Shadow of the Giant: The Making of Mexico's Central America Policy, 1876/1930.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Historian; 1/1/1999; ; 584 words ; ...especially during the regimes of Alvaro Obregon and Plutarco Elias Calles. The years prior to Diaz, between the fall of Diaz...secondary works. Coverage of the Diaz, Obregon, and Calles years is based on multiarchival, documentary research... Read more
Foreign support for Venezuelan political exiles during the regime of Juan Vicente Gomez: the case of Mexico, 1923-33.
Magazine article from: The Historian; 6/22/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...support of President Alvaro Obregon (1920-24), President Plutarco Elias Calles (1924-28), and during the Maximato period (1928-34), when Calles, known as the Jefe Maiximo, wielded the power behind... Read more
SENATE APPROVES LEGISLATION TO ELIMINATE DRY LAW ON ELECTION DAY.
Magazine article from: SourceMex Economic News & Analysis on Mexico; 3/15/2006; 508 words ; ...society. The dry law was first imposed by Sonora Gov. Plutarco Elias Calles in 1915 to discourage violence and abstentionism on election day. Elias Calles later served as Mexican president from 1924 to 1928... Read more
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Magazine article from: The Historian; 1/1/2000; ; 529 words ; ...Alvaro Obregon (president, 1920-1924) had very odd relationships with death. We learn about their strengths, too. Plutarco Elias Calles, president from 1924 to 1928, had the special gifts of severity, reflection, consistency (426). The vignettes... Read more
Persecution of the Church in Mexico.(Cover story)
Magazine article from: Catholic Insight; 9/1/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...Reportedly, the Soviet ambassador assured Mexican President Plutarco Elias Calles (termed the Modern Nero by his opponents) that he...persecution intensified exponentially when President Calles (an avowed Mason) came to power in 1924. Although... Read more
Catholics, too, venerate El Nino Fidencio. (Mexican mystic and healer)(Cover Story)
Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter; 2/7/1997; ; 700+ words ; ...camped out in Espinazo. In 1928 Mexican President Plutarco Elias Calles' suppression of the Catholic priesthood had resulted in the Cristero Revolt. Calles, who organized Mexico's dominant political party... Read more
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