Abstract

LIRA LARIOS, Regina. From the Plan Libertador to the execution of Manuel Lozada in 1873: the process of convergence of a common narrative of lozadismo in Mexico City’s press. Tzintzun. Rev. estud. históricos [online]. 2019, n.70, pp.33-64.  Epub June 19, 2020. ISSN 2007-963X.

Between the proclamation of the Plan Libertador in January 1873 and Manuel Lozada’s execution six months later, the “Tepic question” was intensely debated by Mexico’s city journalists, thus proving the transit between great opening and sociopolitical pluralization during the Restored Republic, and the process of alignment of a common narrative that stigmatizes its leader and revives the Indian’s image as servile and indomitable. This process will be shown, first, by elucidating the rhetoric and argumentative devices of the main conservative and liberal journals that make of this “question” fertile ground for old debates, the redefinition of political concepts and postures, while marginalizing the campesino demands and denying them political character. Second, through the construction and instauration of the “black legend” of Álica’s Tiger embedded in a pseudo-scientific discourse. This will then show how this generation of journalists set themselves as judges and representatives of the moral conducts and norms that shape Mexico’s modern public sphere.

Keywords : stigmatization; public sphere; political plans; social memory; Restored Republic.

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