an elite-controlled, hierarchical,and essentially non-egalitarian one, much of the anger of the peasantry was directed toward U.S. and other foreign investors who controlled more than 20 percent of Mexican territory in 1910. The displaced peasantry, which was already accustomed to various struggles, began a series of attacks against these foreign "imperialists".
Hodges and Gandy (1983) even more clearly assert that the Mexican revolution was even more a struggle against the new colonization by the United States externally than it was against oppression. They also note that the revolution was only partly successful in negating the colonial presence, largely because of Mexico's isolation and weakness, while it was located right next to the United States.
This leads into the second influence that Hart (1987) named as crucial in the Mexican revolution. This was the involvement of the United States in that revolution, intervening with a large and secret supply of arms in 1914 in Veracru
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