El papel de los comités Pro-Estado en la creación del estado de Baja California

Abstract

The article deals with the role of the Pro- State Committees in the formation the state of Baja California. It analyzes the roots of political autonomy in the peninsula, which go back to the Porfiriato, as well as the impact of the Mexican Revolution on this process. It also examines the various pro- State movements which emerged from 1929 on, with regard to the composition of the member groups, their objectives and principal contributions in terms of directing popular sentiment towards the fulfilment of this goal.