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Manuel Antonio Canul y Canul Interview participants:Jose Pio Tzuc Subject 2 was 79 and Subject 3 was 78 years old at the time of the interview. They identified themselves as the parents of the Ejidal Comissary (referring to the community’s ejido, or cooperative land grant/agreement issued by the government to communities after expropriating private land – often composing estates where members of such communities had worked historically -- and the building or institution dedicated to governing a community or political process – in this case the ejido. They spoke of the period in which Lázaro Cárdenas visited Yucatán to launch his “Cruzada del Mayab” promoting land reform and socialization of henequen production. They discussed the redistribution of land in ejidos and the murders of Ignacio Mena y Adalberto Sosa. The described women’s Work (preparing meals, bringing food to their relatives at work in the fields, and despining henequén). They also recalled Politics related to a cooperative corn mil. They explained that in the 1990s, Governor Dulce María Sauri (1991-1993) bought out the henequeneros, giving money to various families and people in Temozón. The situation improved after this additional visit of Cárdenas. She does not remember what governmental administration succeeded Cárdenas but remembers that the people of Temozón kept their land. The recording discusses the fact that Cárdenas gave the women of Temozón a cooperative cornmill and established a cooperative store. Doña Juana Domínguez and Isabel Mocul managed the cornmill and store but they did not do a good job. In the 1990s, Governor Doña Dulce María Sauri (1991-1993) gave 4 million pesos to each person in Temozón. This was related to the liquidation of henequén estate owners/producers. Subject 4 also mentioned Progresa (money given by Sauri’s governorship to women as a form of public assistance). Since this interview took place two months before the 2000 presidential elections (through which Vicente Fox, candidate of the Partido de Acción Nacional (PAN), became the first president in 70+ years from a party besides the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI)) the opposition parties: the PAN and the Partido Revolucionario Democrático (PRD) accused the PRI of using Progresa to buy women’s votes. UC San Diego Library, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://library.ucsd.edu/dc/contact) Created with handheld cassette recorder
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ark:/20775/bb00096535
Language
Spanish
Subject
Corn Assassinations Donkeys Transportation Federales Cord (rope) Trucks Women activists Gardens Schools Haciendas Cents Tortillas Sugar Hacienda owners Roads Fincas Ejidal commissary Pesos Gunshots Teachers Ejidal commissariat Workers Murders Mills (grinding) Coffee Brothers Police Shootings Henequen Women Chocolate Henequen processing plants Plantations Popular assembly Ejidos Dancing Frente Único Pro Derechos de la Mujer (FUPDM) Partido de los Explotadores Lázaro Cárdenas Presidential Administration (1934-1940) Gualberto Carrillo Puerto (Candidato Yucateco para el Senado Federal (1936) Casa del Pueblo (Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico) Chable Uc, Tomasa Poot Tzuk, Felipa Contrario, Elsa Rodríguez, Antonio Cervera Alcocer, Bartolomé Pérez, Chasaro Poot Tzuk, Isabel García, Bartolomé Ávila, Sebastián Pueblos Yucatecos Project: Community of Kinchil (Yucatán, Mexico)
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