Manuel Gómez Morin and the Creation of the National Action Party (PAN)
Manuel Gómez Morin and the Creation of the National Action Party (PAN)
- Javier GarciadiegoJavier GarciadiegoEl Colegio Nacional, Academia Mexicana de la Historia
Summary
Manuel Gómez Morin was a multifaceted Mexican whose life spanned the first three quarters of the 20th century, from 1897 to 1972. He was affected personally, domestically, and generationally by the Revolution, which drastically impacted the geographic backdrops of his childhood and youth and severely affected his family’s social standing. In ideological terms, he was aware of the last (and undoubtedly most authoritarian) stages of Porfirio Díaz’s government, as well as Victoriano Huerta’s dictatorship, which had pushed the Mexican population to take up arms. Although he rejected the destructive violence inherent in the process of revolution, he also opposed the dictatorial regimes that were applauded by some for the results they produced. He spent the second half of his life as a critic of the post-revolutionary Mexican state.
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- History of Mexico
- 1910–1945
