Julio Cuadros Caldas: A Colombian Agra­rian in the Mexican Revolution

This work describes the participation of the Colombian thinker Julio Cuadros Caldas in the building and mobilization of peasant organizations in Puebla from 1920 to the beginning of 1933. Besides writing two volumes of memoirs and compiling a suc­cessful collection of agrarian laws and decrees for peasant groups. Cuadros Caldas founded and led the League of Agrarian Communities of Puebla, became personal informer of General Calles and Adalberto Tejeda and acted as agent for the Depart­ment of the Interior. He also played important roles in the Na­tional Peasant League and in Puebla's ('"Emiliano Zapata") Social Confederation of Peasants, before being considered a "perni­cious foreigner" and banished from Mexico in 1933