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Interview participants:Marcelina Canul Poot Manuel Antonio Canul y Canul Subject 4 was 87 years old at the time of the interview. When subject 4 married, she was 14 years old. She was married 13 years until she was widowed and had four children. She was 16 years old and had a daughter when Cárdenas arrived. Notes from the interview include information that is not mentioned in the recording or transcript. Additional facts presented in notes are that Cárdenas gave 20 pesos to each person present when he visted Temozón; that there was a protest on August 22; and that Cárdenas visited Temozón on another vacation time. According to Subject 4, during this other visit she had her picture taken. Cárdenas redistributed land, but this did not result in significant improvement for the people of Temozón. Subject 4’s grandfather had a milpa with corn. Adalberto Mena was an older man and Ignacio Sosa was younger. They were assassinated because of struggles related to acquiring new land and because of a six-month strike and they were taken to Abalá for burial. There was no work and during the strike no one went to the milpa. The teacher, Don Hermildo, came to help. This is what it was like when Cárdenas came. 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 Also mentioned: ? Poot, Guadalupe (daughter of Felipa) Also mentioned: ?, Don Vacilio
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ark:/20775/bb6084793c
Language
Spanish
Subject
Political appointments Children Daughters Teachers Bullet wounds Beatings Goats Plazas Christians Bathing Fear Police Sons Palacio Municipal Literacy Candles Murders Maya God Nephews Schools Verbal abuse Town hall Municipal presidents Husbands Gunshots Banks Deaths Violence Burials Almond trees Dogs Education Hunger Churches Killing Aunts Grandfathers Animals Popular assembly Politics Grandmothers Lázaro Cárdenas Presidential Administration (1934-1940) Frente Único Pro Derechos de la Mujer (FUPDM) Mérida (Yucatán, Mexico) Cancún (Quintana Roo, Mexico) Kinchil (Yucatán, Mexico) Poot Tzuk, Felipa Solís, Teodora Poot Tzuk, Isabel Cervera Alcocer, Bartolomé Solís, Agustín Puuc Mok, Pedro (husband) Pueblos Yucatecos Project: Community of Kinchil (Yucatán, Mexico)
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