Los desfiles deportivos en la Ciudad de México: Una escenificación de liderazgo regional, 1929-1938

Abstract

This article analyzes the origin of the sports parades that were held for more than seven decades to celebrate the beginning of the Mexican Revolution. The different antecedents leading to the consolidation of this celebration and that can be traced in the Hispanic sports tradition, nineteenth-century civic parties, as well as in the modern physical culture popularized since the end of the nineteenth century in the world are examined. Likewise, the local factors that allowed its strengthening and the actors that were erected as architects of an event that managed to project the image of Mexico as a solid country capable of becoming the regional leader of physical culture are explored.