Exploitation of the territory and peasant resistance. The case of the towns of Santiago and San Pedro Ocuila in Cuencamé, Durango

Abstract

In the transition from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries the State of Durango, like the rest of the north of the country was immersed in a process of political and economic restructuring, because of its status as a producer of raw materials, placing him in close relationship with European and American markets. Since the Party Cuencamé (present municipalities of Cuencamé, Peñón Blanco and Santa Clara), was the most representative example in the state, of the contradictions of this process. They excel in that territory if the United Peoples of Santiago and San Pedro de Ocuila, as one of the main background of the Mexican Revolution in eastern Durango, as through a legal and finally military struggle, managed to cope with the expansionism of large estates in the region. This generated a redefinition of social relations from this resistance.