LA INTERVENCIÓN E INTROMISIÓN DE LOS CURAS EN LOS PUEBLOS DE INDIOS EN EL PERIODO BORBÓNICO: NAUCALPAN Y TLALNEPANTLA.

The article discusses the role of secular clergy in the indigenous communities in New Spain. The author notes that the priests were instructed by their superiors to act as spiritual and moral guides to the indigenous people, but not to act as leaders in any other way. A study is presented, however, of two towns in which the priests clearly continued to intervene and interfere with the natives' internal structure and social issues. It is asserted that the members of the towns analyzed, Naucalpan and Tlanepantla, were more frequently disadvantaged by the priests' involvement rather than favored by it.