Abstract

ALVAREZ-CERVANTES, Luisa  and  GARCIA-CANTU, Arcadio Alejandro. Atypical political alternation in the municipality of Abasolo, Tamaulipas (1980-1983). CienciaUAT [online]. 2019, vol.13, n.2, pp.28-43. ISSN 2007-7858.  https://doi.org/10.29059/cienciauat.v13i2.1006.

The interlacing between the ideological convictions of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) youth in Mexico, the victory of land distribution among the New Ejido Population Settlements (Nuevos Centros de Población Ejidal, NCPE), and the organization of farmers in Particular Executive Committees of Agriculture (Comités Ejecutivos Particulares Agrarios, CEPA), resulted in the first political alternation contemporary history of Tamaulipas, which took place in Abasolo municipality. The city council was constitutionally recognized in 1983, being the only electoral victory of the SWP in the state. The objective of this paper is to record the background of the political and social history of the SWP from 1980 to 1983. This was a historical research based on the triangulation of primary and secondary sources, following the assumption that politics is the prolongation of the war by other means. The history of the hegemony of the Institutional Revolutionary Party’s (Partido Revolucionario Institucional, PRI) breakdown in Abasaolo was recreated through historical archives and oral interviews with different social actors of the time. The SWP achieved constitutional recognition from the city council in 1983 during 21 days, representing an atypical political alternation in the municipality. This alternation was atypical not only because a different party was elected, but also due to the conditions in which the electing process was conducted, how the elected candidate was chosen, and the manner in which the city mayor concluded the constitutional period. These events made the political struggle between the SWP and the PRI possible in this municipality.

Keywords : Socialist Workers Party; Institutional Revolutionary Party; atypical municipal alternation; Abasolo; New Ejido Population Settlements.

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