Abstract

PINA, Ulices. The Different Roads to Rebellion: Socialist Education and the Second Cristero Rebellion in Jalisco, 1934-1939. Let. hist. [online]. 2017, n.16, pp.165-192. ISSN 2448-8372.

When Lázaro Cárdenas came in to office, he inherited a Six-Year Plan that intended to open 12,000 new rural schools. The instruction to be imparted at these schools was to be socialist in its orientations and tendencies. This article focuses on the upsurge in local political violence in the State of Jalisco in response to the educational reform that emanated from the National Government. I highlight the conflicts and confrontations that comprised this phenomenon to illustrate how Mexican citizens understood their rights and made decisions during a period of social agitation.

Keywords : Socialist education; political violence; rural teachers; agrarians; the Second Cristero Rebellion.