A twenty nine months truce: a pause within the conflict between the State and the Catholic Church in Mexico (1929-1931)

una pausa en el conflicto entre el Estado y la Iglesia católica en México (1929-1931)

Abstract

This article aims to explore a brief stage in the history of Mexico so far little addressed by historiography: the months that elapsed from “los arreglos” of June 1929 to the resurgence of religious persecution through new anticlerical regulations in December 1931. It will be sought describe what was the situation in those years when it seemed that the agreed modus vivendi was working, although with some exceptions, especially in Tabasco and Veracruz, as well as what was the trigger for a disproportionate reaction from the radical revolutionary wing that, in December 1931, resumed the path of preventing the action of the Catholic Church through legal restrictions.