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An 18 page research paper that examines the Mexican Revolution and both Zapatista Movements (1920s and 1990s) and how they affected the spirit of Mexican nationalism. The writer offers an overview of the Revolution, nationalism and what experts feel is needed for a healthy Mexican identity and nationalism. Bibliography lists 20 sources.
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particular social construct has been interpreted in the paintings of Rivera and Orozco, although the majority of Mexicans, according to Moreno (1997), perceive Mexican history and destiny as part of
a continuum, "the history and destiny of which were permanently ordered by the governments official discourse" (Moreno, 1997, p. 858). This characteristic of how Mexican history is perceived
is not particularly unusual in a country that has been governed almost exclusively in the twentieth century by a party who legitimacy and legend stem from the Revolution (Moreno, 1997).
Any dispute concerning the interpretation and meaning of the Revolution arose in response to the political quarrels of ruling elites. As
this suggests, such internal quarrels were highly institutionalized, which resulted in policy concerning the Revolution that obeyed some basic rules. These are that "each presidential term could add new
goals and myths to the continuum of the Revolution, whether or not this new addition contradicted the legacy inherited form the former sexenio;" and at the same time, "each presidential
term should respect what all past political cohorts said and accepted as the real meaning of the Revolution" (Moreno, 1997, p. 858). In turn, the new president becomes the "last
hero" to be integrated to the revolutionary capital (Moreno, 1997). Contradictory views of the Revolution began to evolved from the very moment the revolutionary upheaval took place. Those
perspectives that differed from the official view have been generally highly penalized. Moreno (1997) asserts that the ruling elites of Mexico have, for the most part, monopolized the discourse
on the Revolution, masking what was always the "scope of its meaning and rhythm of its change: power" (Moreno, 1999, p.858). However, from the 1980s onward, the elite class has
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