The socialist propaganda in Chihuahua during the mandate of Rodrigo M. Quevedo: an analysis based on the report of the last year of the government

Abstract

This paper seeks an approach to the analysis of socialist state propaganda in Chihuahua during the government of General Rodrigo M. Quevedo through the text of his last government report in 1936. So he highlights the importance of the rescue and work with sources primaries and their interpretation of the historical context. The research is part of a doctoral thesis related to the influence of Soviet socialist propaganda in the education and culture of Chihuahua in the period 1920-1940, which seeks to clarify the concept of propaganda, its history, development and evolution within the framework of the so-called ideology of the left, known as socialist. The paper was prepared thanks to the rescue work of a personal file that belonged to the municipal president of Chihuahua in 1936, teacher normalist and main representative of the socialist ideology in education of the Cardenista period: Manuel López Dávila; which was donated by the teacher's family to be integrated into the archive of the Historical Archive of the Universidad Autónoma de Chihuahua (UACH). The document situates the political context within the historical context of the state of Chihuahua in the 1930s, focusing mainly on the socialist approach present in official Cardenista propaganda and its deviation in historical reality. The aim is to confront the official discourse with reality so that it serves as an invitation to the relationship between the distance between the two.