No todo lo que brilla es oro: apuntes sobre la naturaleza del sinarquismo mexicano

Abstract

he present paper discusses the deinition of fascism used by the historian
Jean Meyer in his book entitled El sinarquismo, el cardenismo y la iglesia 1937-
1947. By providing a quick overview of existing research on the subject, it
points out the great variety of deinitions and points of view based on various
studies. In order to address the question of the fascist character of synarchism,
the paper suggests a close look at the discourse of the Unión Nacional
Sinarquista. he present study takes the perspective of the common denominators
of fascism and relies on Hélgio Trindade’s work on Brazilian integralism
and investigates those points of the synarchist ideological discourse
which allow us to relativize and discuss critically why Jean Meyer excluded
synarchism from the list of fascist movements.