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ALARCON MENCHACA, Laura. Clientelismo y exilio: José María Maytorena como "ego" de una red, 1915-1920. Región y sociedad [online]. 2006, vol.18, n.37, pp.254-288. ISSN 2448-4849.

The first five years of exile of the Sonoran revolutionary José María Maytorena Tapia are analyzed according to the perspective of egocentric and exocentric networks formation, focusing on financial resources and information exchange. Two variables that conditioned the networks' interweaving are analyzed: Maytorena's links to other individuals, based upon financial support, and his opposition to Venustiano Carranza's regime. Changes in the nation's political scenario, as well as its relationship to the United States, deepened or diminished the reciprocity among the network's members, seen in terms of one subject as the network's "ego," of which several examples are given. The failure of Felipe Ángeles' enterprise, Carranza's murder and the bitter hostility between Maytorena and Álvaro Obregón spurred the formation of new ties in the following stage of Maytorena's exile, which lasted more than a decade.

Palavras-chave : exile; networks; egocentric networks; exocentric networks; ties; friendship; clientele.