Resumen de ¿Quién encarceló al alguacil mayor de Puebla?: la vida, los negocios y el poder de Don Pedro de Mendoza y Escalante, 1695 - 1740
The principal objective of this contribution is to show the strategies employed by a novohispanic official to obtain fortune and power. Interesting facts about the political culture of the provincial oligarchy are discovered when the author links coincidences between the public careers, family relations and basic features of personality.
