Identifier: barbarousmexico00turn (find matches)
Title: Barbarous Mexico
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Turner, John Kenneth
Subjects: Mexico -- Politics and government 1867-1910 Mexico -- Economic conditions
Publisher: Chicago : C. H. Kerr & company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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per class once put the situation tome quite aptly. Said he: Death is the only anti-re-elec-tionist in Mexico. The chief reason why the states arenot governed by men who have been in office for thirty-four years is because those who were first put in havedied and it has become necessary to fill their places withothers. As it is, Colonel Prospero Cahuantzi has ruledthe State of Tlaxcala for the whole Porfirian period.General Aristeo Mercado has ruled the State of Michoa-can for over twenty-five years. Teodoro Dehesa hasgoverned the State of Veracruz for twenty-five years.When deposed in 1909, General Bernardo Reyes had gov-erned the State of Nuevo Leon for nearly twenty-fiveyears. General Francisco Canedo, General AbrahamBandala and Pedro Rodriguez ruled the States of Sinaloa,Tabasco and Hidalgo, respectively, for over twenty years.General Luis Terrazas was governor of Chihuahua forover twenty years, while Governors Martinez, Cardenasand Obregon Gonzalez ruled the States of Puebla, Coa-
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READY FUR THE EXEClTlON REPRESSIVE ELEMENTS OF THE DIAZ MACHINE ^^ 141) huila and Guanajuato, respectively, for about fifteenyears. Diazs system of government is very simple, once itis explained. ■- The president, thc^governor, the jefepolitico-rdrhese three names represent all the power in thecountry. In Mexico there is but one governmental power—the executive. The other two departments exist inname only. Not one elective office remains in the country.All are appointive. And through the appointive powerthe three executives mentioned control the entire situa-tion. The word of these three officials in his particularsphere—the president in the twenty-seven states and twoterritories, the governor in his state, the jcfc politico inhis district—is the law of the land. Not one of the threeis required to answer to the people for his acts. Thegovernor must answer to the president and the jefepolitico to the governor and the president. It is the mostperfect one-man system on earth. Of

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