| Résumé: | This paper examines the relation between the revolutionary authority represented by the Liberating Army of Southern and Central Mexico and the groups of civil population under its control between 1913 and 1917. The author suggests that this relation was, in general, spontaneous, widely consented, and reciprocally supportive, although not absolutely symbiotic. Subordinated social groups claimed their right to express autonomously, to defend what they considered just, and to undertake actions to oppose arbitrary practices. Through actions of defiance and disobedience, they contested mandates and practices that exceeded local possibilities, violated previous agreements, or created insecurity for the population. Sporadic and isolated actions added to the daily transformation and recomposition of relations between those who held the political and military power and subordinated social groups.
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