Government and Mexican Social Movements Faced with World War II

Manuel Avila Camacho's government had a direct interest in joining the great multinational alliance headed by the United States during World War II. It therefore carried out an extensive propagandistic task to get the public opinion approval to take part in the international anti-Fascist coalition. Eric Hobsbawm's statement that the coalition was a major confrontation between revolutionary or liberal forces and reactionary forces, not only at international level but also at the heart of most nations, can be fully proved in Mexico's case. Here a confrontation took place between the forces of the left (official or independent) and the rightist opposition. Avila Camacho's forces then took advantage to consolidate the authoritarian strength of the post-revolutionary regime.