| Résumé: | Adolfo Ruiz Cortines became president of Mexico in 1952, when the government was going through an important legitimacy crisis caused, among other things, by the disproportionate and ostentatious enrichment incurred in by several high-ranking officials from the preceding administration, led by Miguel Alemán. The new president implemented several measures to reestablish legitimacy, among them a "moralizing campaign", the main instrument of which was an amendment to the Ley de Responsabilidades (Responsability Act) for public officials. This work analyzes the background and discussions awakened during this amendment, and suggests that they brought forth two male identities representing rwo different ways of being president, and that the clash between the two not only allowed for the symbolic success of the moralizing campaign, but also strenghtened Mexican presidentialism.
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