
Plutarco Elías Calles
Former President of MexicoWikipedia
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Sep 13, 2026
Ulices Piña, "Rebellious Citizens: Social Upheaval and Democracy in Revolutionary Mexico (U Nebraska Press, 2026)
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11:35Ulices PiñaGUEST
But you have a good amount of scholars that have started to address this.
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11:39Ulices PiñaGUEST
Jürgen Buchenau is one of them with his books on Plutarco Elias Calles, Álvaro Obregón, and his most recent book on the Sonoran dynasty.
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11:49Ulices PiñaGUEST
You have Sarah Austin, whose wonderful book on the 1920s on the making of the political system.
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11:57Ulices PiñaGUEST
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.
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14:28Rachel NewmanHOST
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.
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14:39Rachel NewmanHOST
What were the forms that were most common in this case?
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14:41Ulices PiñaGUEST
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.
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15:02Ulices PiñaGUEST
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 Piña, "Rebellious Citizens: Social Upheaval and Democracy in Revolutionary Mexico (U Nebraska Press, 2026)
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11:29Ulices PiñaGUEST
But you have a good amount of scholars that have started to address this.
U
11:33Ulices PiñaGUEST
Jürgen Buchenau is one of them with his books on Plutarco Elias Calles, Álvaro Obregón, and his most recent book on the Sonoran Dynasty.
U
11:43Ulices PiñaGUEST
You have Sarah Austin, whose wonderful book on the 1920s on the making of the political system.
U
11:51Ulices PiñaGUEST
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.
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14:22Rachel NewmanHOST
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.
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14:33Rachel NewmanHOST
What were the forms that were most common in this case?
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14:35Ulices PiñaGUEST
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.
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14:56Ulices PiñaGUEST
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.