Cristeros

"What Sinarkism wants is a homeland for the propertied and for free men," they argued. The alliance, led by military discipline, defended private ownership and criticized the excesses of Cardenas' reforms in the collectivist and socialist directions. It also inherited the mystical traditions of the Cristeros movement of the 1920s. By doing so, it developed from an imported fascist organization into a major popular movement rooted in Mexico, finding widespread support especially among the poor peasants of the backward central states, who were growing increasingly distrustful of the bureaucratic land redistribution policy. At its peak in 1940-41, it was able to mobilize more than 500,000 members. It finally began to decline between 1944 and 1948, but it still wields some hidden power, and in the 1979 general election, the successor to the League, the Mexican Democratic Party (founded in 1971), won about 300,000 votes and won 10 of the 400 seats in the National Assembly, making it one of the ultra-conservative factions within the system (as of 1989, it holds 13 of the 500 seats).

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…シナルキスモが望んでいるのは有産者と自由な人間のための祖国である〉と主張した。軍隊的規律でもって統率された同盟は私的所有制を擁護し，〈集産主義的〉〈社会主義的〉方向へのカルデナス改革の行過ぎを批判するとともに，1920年代のクリステーロスcristerosの運動から神秘主義的伝統を継承することにより，単なる外来のファシスト組織からメキシコに根づいた一大民衆運動へ発展し，とりわけ官僚主義的な農地再分配政策に不信をつのらせた後進的な中部諸州の貧農層の間に広範な支持を見いだし，最盛期の1940‐41年には50万名強をも動員することができた。ようやく44‐48年に衰退に向かうが，現在でも隠然たる勢力をほこり，79年総選挙では同盟の後身，メキシコ民主党(1971創設)が約30万票を集めて400議席中の10議席を得，体制内超保守派の一角を占めた(89年現在，500議席中13議席)。…

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