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VAZQUEZ SEMADENI, María Eugenia. Las obediencias masónicas del rito de York como centros de acción política, México, 1825-1830. LiminaR [online]. 2009, vol.7, n.2, pp.41-55. ISSN 2007-8900.

On the first few decades of the 19th Century, Mexican masonry was very close to the political activity of the new-born country. Thepublic identities of thepoliticalgroups in competition for political power were constructed-through thepublic papers- on the basis of their projects for the nation, their conception of the political system, and their preferred form of government. But those identities were also defined around their members' Masonic relations. Those groups were known as escoceses and yorkinos. Very limited information exists about the Scottish rite in Mexico during that period, but the York rite did leave records about the way their members used the Masonic structure to obtain political support, to orient election results, to legitimize their access to public offices, and to demand government actions. The aim of this paper is to show how Masonry's hierarchical structures, its communication channels, and the loyalties it created were used by yokino masons to turn the York rite into a center of political activity, and how the main yorkinos, operating in Mexico City, used the Mexican institutional structure to get political support through their yorkino affiliation.

Palabras llave : Masonry; yorkinos; escoceses; center of political activity; political culture; elections.

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