Abstract

CANTO VALDES, Luis Roberto; YANES PEREZ, Maritel  and  RAMOS MUNOZ, Dora Elia. The crime of Tekax: the journalistic chronicle and its critical narrative in Yucatán in 1890. Trace (Méx. DF) [online]. 2021, n.79, pp.97-118.  Epub May 24, 2021. ISSN 2007-2392.  https://doi.org/10.22134/trace.79.2021.743.

The «red note» published on a crime occurred in a henequen farm of Tekax Yucatan in 1890 is documented. The handling of the press gave homicide is analyzed, while explaining how social control was built in rural Yucatan, and the reasons why Yucatecan journalism was interested in the event. This work explain how the nineteenthcentury press of Merida presented evidence about the murder of a day laborer and showed evidence of how a criticism of working conditions and legal and investigative scaffolding that cemented the mistreatment of day laborers was integrated in their red note Maya by the landowner’s staff.

Keywords : social control; social change; journalism; social critic; homicide.

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