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Interview participants:Manuela Panti Escalante Subject 1 and other interview participants recalled the era in which President Lázaro Cárdenas (1934-1940) visited Temozón to launch his “Cruzada del Mayab” promoting land reform and socialization of henequen production. Those interviewed claimed that there were 83 people in Temozon at that time and the wage was approximately 40 cents daily or 7 pesos/week. Every year clothes were given out. The assassinations of Ignacio Mena and Adalberto Sosa had occurred a short time before, in the context of agrarian political violence between two groups: one supporting the hacienda patron (owner), Don Humberto, and the other composed of union members who organized a strike. The interviewees also spoke about the present. They described voting as an obligation and discussed Progresa, a government-organized public assistance program giving women needed funds. 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. Subject 1 dismissed this claim, explaining that pensions nor Progresa provided enough money to survive. 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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Spanish
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Popular assembly Organizing, women Coffee Candles Granddaughters Teachers Diputada federal de México Blessings Dancing Godparents Teaching Las Posadas Transportation Spiritists Doctors Voting Women Sewing Pentecostal church Politics Chamber of Deputies (Mexico) Daughter-in-law Elections Grandchildren Embroidery Induction Christmas eve Tea, medicinal Presbyterians Food Trains Catholics Knitting Horseback riding Evangelicals Flower arranging Christmas Bathing Cultural dancing Municipal presidents Jehovah’s Witnesses Childbirth Crafts Midwifery Lázaro Cárdenas Presidential Administration (1934-1940) Frente Único Pro Derechos de la Mujer (FUPDM) Tabasco (México) Mérida (Yucatán, Mexico) Tekax (Yucatán, Mexico) Oxkutzcab (Yucatán, Mexico) Chetumal (Quintana Roo, Mexico) Medina, Saturnina Marin, Ricardo Peraza, Gertrudis Cetina, Liberata Pérez, Gumersinda Heredia, Serafina Flota de Hernández, Maria Escalante, Romuelda Peralta, Olga Rivero, Soledad Novelo, Isabel Cárdenas, Lázaro, 1895-1970 Hernandez, Adalberto Reyes, Victoria Hernández, Ramón Hernández, Felipe Medina, Isabel Flota Pérez, Tiburcio Pueblos Yucatecos Project: Community of Tixmehuác (Yucatán, Mexico)
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