Abstract

LEMUS SORIANO, Elmy. Acapulco and the modernization project alemanista. Let. hist. [online]. 2016, n.14, pp.211-231. ISSN 2448-8372.

The article analyzes the configuration, as much urbanistic as cultural, of the modern port of Acapulco, according to the economic project of the period of Miguel Aleman’s presidency. It also emphasizes the role of the foreign and national press, in the successful configuration of a new image of the port of Acapulco, that was combining the idea of the idyllic with the modern, the same prevailing until the beginning of the sixties, when the Mexican economic project showed an evident decrease.

Keywords : Acapulco; economy; modernity; tourism; alemanismo.