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9.27- The Institutional Revolution

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Alvaro Obergon: A Memoir of the Mexican Revolution

Alvaro Obergon was president of Mexico from 1928 to 1931. Ruben Navarrette: He represented the practical achievements of the revolution, what it really was about. But thanks to his fanatical pragmatism, he claims no great idealistic mantle or revolutionary vision, he says.Navarrette: His life just doesn't have the same tragic arc nor the same romantic tug as Madero and Zapata.

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