Resumen

RANGEL, Edgar J.. A Navarrese merchant owner of the East Coast of Yucatan’s forests: Faustino Martinez (1889-1909). Am. Lat. Hist. Econ [online]. 2018, vol.25, n.3, pp.160-186. ISSN 2007-3496.  https://doi.org/10.18232/alhe.927.

Through the historic review of the Eastern Coast of Yucatan forests logging entrepreneurship, Faustino Martínez’s figure is reconstructed, business man who represents the Porfiriato’s Mexican economic oligarchy, his business profile allowed him undertake business and actions to take advantage over the forest concessions in the east of the Yucatan Peninsula. The access he has to the highest economic and political spheres, is the key to know the transcendence of this Spaniard entrepreneurship on the basis of his links and business in the region, which enable to obtain longest properties, greatest forest authorizations, to move labor force and to establish an extraction economy in order to built the Quintana Roo Federal Territory.

Palabras llave : Porfiriato; entrepreneurship; extractive industries; trade; micro-business history..