Abstract

MEZA HUACUJA, Ivonne. Between Books and Rifles: the Ideological Formation of Garridista Youth and the “Red Shirts” in Tabasco, 1922-1935. Secuencia [online]. 2019, n.105, e1565. ISSN 2395-8464.  https://doi.org/10.18234/secuencia.v0i105.1565.

For a number of specialists, the political-social project of the government of Tomás Garrido Canabal in Tabasco stood out because of its autonomy, radicalism and popularity in regard to those developed in other parts of the country. This article analyzes the discourses constructed in various newspapers of Tabasco on young people during the Garrido regime and their role as participants in fulfilling certain revolutionary precepts. It also examines the impact of the rationalist education and the Juárez Institute on youth identity and the creation of the ideology of the Revolutionary Youth Block, a key organization for Garrido’s policies and the survival of the regime. The research demonstrates the effect of formal and informal education on the formation of various ways of understanding the surrounding reality, identity and the function of the various sectors.

Keywords : garridism; Revolutionary Youth Block; rationalist education; radical youth; representations.