Carlos Martínez Assad is Professor Emeritus of the Universidad Autónoma Nacional de México. In addition to his classic El laboratorio de la Revolución: El Tabasco garridista, he has published extensively on matters of regional and national history. A recognized authority on the Mexican Revolution as well as Mexico’s extensive Lebanese community, he has garnered many awards in his career, including a John Simon Guggrenheim grant and the Universidad Nacional’s award for the promotion of research.Terry Rugeley, now retired as Professor of Mexican and Latin American History, is founder and CEO of Fountain Pen Translations LLC. His many book-length publications include The River People in Flood Time: The Civil Wars in Tabasco, Spoiler of Empires (Stanford, 2014) and Epic Mexico: A History from Earliest Times (Oklahoma, 2020).

• List of Illustrations and TablesTranslator’s PrefaceChronologyPrincipal Organizations by AcronymIntroduction1 Anticlerical Radicalism1 Jacobinism and Bolshevism2 Influence3 The ICAM in Tabasco4 The Tip of the Spear5 The Fiercest Enemy6 The Land without God7 Variations on the Same Theme8 Combating Fanaticism9 Anecdotes10 Repercussions11 Garrido’s Path2 Education without Dogma1 The Modern School in Tabasco2 Objectives of the New Education3 The Rationalist School in Operation4 Against Centralized Education5 In the Time of Revolutionary Psychology6 The Students Take Sides3 The Enclave Economy1 Green Gold2 A Unique Sort of Agrarian Reform4 The Puritan Modernizer1 The Cooperative Republic2 The Anti-vice Campaign3 Socialism without Marx5 Politics, Tabasco-Style1 Garrido’s Power2 An Impregnable Bastion3 The Ligas de Resistencia4 The Emissary of Revolutionary Thought5 Regional versus Central Government6 Anatomy of the Camisas Rojas7 Women as the Foundation of Garridista Society6 In the Eyes of His Enemies1 Protect Our Traditions!2 Dimas, the Good Thief3 Anticlericalism4 Rationalist Teaching5 Ligas de Resistencia6 The Camisas Rosas7 The Black Legend8 And Even the Victor Is More Honored9 An Eye for an Eye10 The Crusades7 The Confrontation1 Bloody Sunday in Coyoacán2 The Field of Battle Is Chosen3 The Leader’s Fall8 Tabasco Must Be Mexicanized1 In the Shadow of Don Tomás2 “And the Gates of Hell Will Not Prevail …”3 National Integration9 The Voluntary Exile of Garrido Canabal1 The Leader of the Southeast2 Another Life3 In Garrido’s Absence4 Before and After5 The New World6 Internal Politics7 National Politics: Petroleum8 The Rebellion of Saturnino Cedillo9 Quarrel with the Catholic Church10 The Presidential Succession of 194011 Economy and Agrarian Reform12 The Return13 Death Comes for the Man of Action14 El VencedorGlossary of Spanish TermsBibliographyIndex