Plate 71: Los Cristeros contra la enseñanza en el campo (from the portfolio Estampas de la Revolución Mexicana)
Artist
Fernando Castro Pacheco
(Mexican, 1918 - 2013)
Publisher
Taller de Gráfica Popular
(Mexican, founded 1937)
Dateprinted 1947
Mediumlinocut
ClassificationsGraphic
Credit LineGift of the Don Pierce Estate, 2015
Object number2015.29.102
DescriptionCristeros against free education for the workers, one such worker being shot. Three men are shooting at a worker who is standing by a turned over table and is holding a book in his right hand up in the air.eMuseum Notes
Historical text from the accompanying booklet reads as: Con motivo de la reforma Educativa de 1934, los elementos clericales emprendieron una deleznable campaña en contra de los maestros rurales de la República. Muchas escuelas en el campo fueron incendiadas y destruidas y centenares de maestros rurales fueron asesinados por las hordas cristeras. En ocasiones, recurrieron al desorejamiento de los nobles apóstoles del alfabeto. Fue otro delito de lesa patria que se apuntó el clero en su haber. Alberto Morales Jimenez.
Translation: In response to the Educational Reform of 1934, the clergy launched a despicable campaign against the country's rural educators. Many rural schools were demolished and hundreds of teachers were murdered by Cristero (Catholic militant) mobs that sometimes resorted to cutting the ears off of the noble promoters of literacy. This was another criminal offense that the clergy had perpetrated against the mother country. Translated by Aída Wester, Intern 2017.
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Fernando Castro Pacheco
printed 1947
Fernando Castro Pacheco
printed 1947
Fernando Castro Pacheco
printed 1947
Fernando Castro Pacheco
printed 1947
Fernando Castro Pacheco
printed 1947
Fernando Castro Pacheco
printed 1947
