Andrés Molina Enríquez

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Andrés Molina Enríquez (November 30, 1868,

Mexico State.[2][3] He is considered the intellectual father of the land reform movement in modern Mexico embodied in Article 27 of the Constitution of 1917, and for reasserting the principle of national sovereignty with regard to ownership of land and resources on a liberal positivist basis.[4][5][6] He has been called "the Rousseau of the Mexican Revolution."[7]

Influence & work

Los Grandes Problemas Nacionales

Molina Enríquez is best known for publishing Los Grandes Problemas Nacionales (The Great National Problems) in 1909,[8] a book highly critical of the Porfirio Díaz government.[9] Molina Enríquez characterized the period after 1821 as the era of national disintegration. The book highlighted issues of sharp political divisions, recurrent armed conflicts, and periodic foreign interventions.[10] Molina Enríquez focused particularly on two aspects, land reform and the rights of the indigenous people and their place in society socially. Molina Enríquez was arrested by the government of Francisco León de la Barra on August 25, 1911 for publishing the document, which has later been described as highly influential on the eve of the Mexican Revolution.[1][11] A well-known quote from the book is "la hacienda no es negocio" [the hacienda is not a business]: "By this he meant that the large Mexican landed states of his day (and stretching back to their origins in the era of the Spanish conquest) were for the most part not profit-oriented but 'feudal' enterprises, that rural Mexico was therefore only partially capitalistic, if at all, and that the country was ipso facto only imperfectly modern."[12]

Certain prominent personalities within the Mexican liberal tradition such as Melchor Ocampo, Ignacio Ramírez, Ponciano Arriaga, José María del Castillo Velasco, and Isidoro Olvera had always had a "social" element to their liberalism inspired by French radicalism and utopian socialism, and this strand of thought influenced Molina Enríquez and other participants in the Mexican Revolution.[13][14]

Indigenous rights

Molina Enríquez argued indigenous people suffered because of position on national social structure. In order to resolve the suffering of the indigenous people, and create equality, Molina Enríquez believed they had to be integrated into the national state, this idea would be central to the indigenist movement when it went international.

Spanish/French in their thinking and ways, the mestizos to Molina Enríquez, were a new race, with a new culture of their own and the majority of Mexicans.[16] Molina Enríquez believed that the "liberales mestizos" were the group most capable of carrying out the modernization of the country.[5] In La Reforma y Juárez (1906), he praised Benito Juárez and the Reform Era as a time of political virtues in contrast to the corruption of the Porfiriato.[17]

Land reform

Molina Enríquez believed land reform was needed. In August 1911, he issued the Plan de Texcoco as a prelude to revolt, in which he called for establishing a

article 27 of the Mexican Constitution and a member of the National Agrarian Commission.[19][20][21][1]
Molina Enríquez had helped create the legal mandate for the destruction of the hacienda system and the re-centralization of State power.

Further reading

  • Coffman, Amador. Andrés Molina Enríquez. Toluca: Patrimonio Cultural y Artística del Estado de México 1979.
  • Sánchez Arteche, Alfonso. Molina Enríquez: La herencia de un reformador. Toluca: Instituto Mexiquense de Cultura 1990.
  • Shadle, Stanley F. Andrés Molina Enríquez: Mexican Land Reformer of the Revolutionary Era. Tucson: University of Arizona Press 1994.

See also

References

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  4. ^ Kourí, Emilio (2009). En busca de Molina Enríquez: cien años de Los grandes problemas nacionales. El Colegio de Mexico. pp. 127–228.
  5. ^ a b Saladino García, Alberto (2004). Humanismo mexicano del siglo XX. Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México. pp. 83–97.
  6. ^ Hale, Charles A. (2014). The Transformation of Liberalism in Late Nineteenth-Century Mexico. Princeton University Press. pp. 259–260.
  7. ^ Anita Brenner, The Wind That Swept Mexico: The History of the Mexican Revolution, 1910-1942. New York: Harper and Brothers Publishers 1943, p. 43.
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  12. ^ Eric Van Young, "Beyond the Hacienda: Agrarian Relations and Socioeconomic Change in Rural Mesoamerica," Ethnohistory 50:1 (2003): 231.
  13. ^ Witker Velásquez, Jorge (2016). El Constitucionalismo Económico en la Carta de Querétaro 1917-2017. Cámara de Diputados. p. 1.
  14. ^ Raat, William Dirk (1982). Mexico, from Independence to Revolution, 1810-1910. University of Nebraska Press. p. 140.
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  17. ^ Lloyd, Jane-Dale (1997). Cuatro cuestiones de la cuestión agraria decimonónica. Universidad Iberoamericana. pp. 105–106.
  18. ^ Plan de Texcoco by Andres Molina Enríquez published in El Imparcial, translation by Stanley F. Shadle. Shadle, Andrés Molina Enríquez, Appendix. p. 114.
  19. ^ Stanley Shadle, Andrés Molina Enríquez: Mexican Land Reformer of the Revolutionary Era. Tucson: University of Arizona Press 1994.
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