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Plutarco Elías Calles

Plutarco Elías Calles

Former President of MexicoWikipedia

Search complete. 6 mentions across 2 episodes found for "Plutarco Elías Calles".

Sep 13, 2026

Ulices PiñaGUEST
11:35
But you have a good amount of scholars that have started to address this.
Ulices PiñaGUEST
11:39
Jürgen Buchenau is one of them with his books on Plutarco Elias Calles, Álvaro Obregón, and his most recent book on the Sonoran dynasty.
Ulices PiñaGUEST
11:49
You have Sarah Austin, whose wonderful book on the 1920s on the making of the political system.
Ulices PiñaGUEST
11:57
There's been a significant attention that's been brought, at least light has been, there's much more of an emphasis on how this rebellion was actually formative to the new political system that emerged in this period.
Rachel NewmanHOST
14:28
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.
Rachel NewmanHOST
14:39
What were the forms that were most common in this case?
Ulices PiñaGUEST
14:41
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, had picked his successor, his successor being Plutarco Elias Calles, who was, I believe, his Ministry of Interior.
Ulices PiñaGUEST
15:02
The problem is that Adolfo de la Huerta, who was interim president before Obregón, and actually in the years before, sorry, right before Obregón, and he also wanted to become president as well, right? So both of them amassed significant followings.
Ulices PiñaGUEST
11:29
But you have a good amount of scholars that have started to address this.
Ulices PiñaGUEST
11:33
Jürgen Buchenau is one of them with his books on Plutarco Elias Calles, Álvaro Obregón, and his most recent book on the Sonoran Dynasty.
Ulices PiñaGUEST
11:43
You have Sarah Austin, whose wonderful book on the 1920s on the making of the political system.
Ulices PiñaGUEST
11:51
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.
Rachel NewmanHOST
14:22
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.
Rachel NewmanHOST
14:33
What were the forms that were most common in this case?
Ulices PiñaGUEST
14:35
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.
Ulices PiñaGUEST
14:56
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.

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