Álvaro Obregón

But you have a good amount of scholars that have started to address this.

Jürgen Buchenau is one of them with his books on Plutarco Elias Calles, Álvaro Obregón, and his most recent book on the Sonoran Dynasty.

You have Sarah Austin, whose wonderful book on the 1920s on the making of the political system.

There's been a significant attention that's been brought, at least light has been brought There's much more of an emphasis on how this rebellion was actually formative to the new political system that emerged in this period.

Could you tell us a little bit more about what people were upset about that sparked this rebellion and how exactly they rebelled? You know, there are a lot of ways to resist.

What were the forms that were most common in this case?

Yeah, I mean, the conflict started, you know, pretty much because the president at the time, Álvaro Obregón, who was in power from 1920 to 1924, handpicked his successor, his successor being Plutarco Elias Calles, who was, I believe, his Ministry of Interior.

The problem is that Adolfo de la Huerta, who was an interim president before Oregón, and actually in the years before, Sorry, right before Obregón.

By the 1920s, the major fighting subsides.

Presidents Alvaro Obregón and later Putarco Ilias Calles have consolidated power, they have the guns, but they look around at a ruined economy and realize they have no money and no mechanisms to raise any.

They are essentially back in 1876 with Porfirio Diaz, but worse.

Because after a decade of governments literally arresting bank directors, printing worthless fiat money, and robbing bank vaults with armed soldiers, how on earth do you convince a capitalist that their money is finally safe? Why would anyone ever open a bank in Mexico again?