The Southeast Socialist Party (PSS), formerly known as the Socialist Workers' Party (PSO) and the Socialist Party of Yucatan (PSY), was a socialist political party in Mexico which was active in Yucatan from 1916 to 1924. In 1918, PSS member Carlos Castro Morales became the first socialist governor of Yucatan, and the party grew in popularity due to the activities of its Resistance Leagues. The party supported Laborist Party leader Alvaro Obregon at the 1920 presidential election, and, from 1921 to 1924, the PSS dominated Yucatan politics under the leadership of Governor Felipe Carrillo Puerto, who won 94.9% of the vote and gave his inaugural address in the Mayan language. His party redistributed 664,000 hectares of Yucatecan land to the peasantry, created several schools and highways, embarked on a literacy campaign, established a minimum wage, incorporated women into public life, and translated the federal constitution into the Mayan language. In 1924, Adolfo de la Huerta's general Juan Ricardez Broca assassinated Carrillo Puerto and seized power in Yucatan in a military coup; De la Huerta condemned the assassination, but the PSS was destroyed as a result.
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