| Summary: | In the Michoacan rural society of the thirties, agrarian political mediators, such as Juan Gutiérrez Flores in the Zamora Valley, were visible heads among peasants that greatly relied on them to obtain different goods and public services; but they also helped the State implement some of its policies, such as agrarian and educational ones, through which it sought to strengthen its hegemony, winning the loyalty of agrarian peasants and overcoming the resistance of social sectors close to the clergy. This work claims that by exploring the way in which Gutiérrez Flores built his regional power and carried out bis mediating functions, it is possible to approach a moment of the centralization process in Cardenas' postrevolutionary State.
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