Impact of The Mexican Revolution on Mexico
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The Mexican Revolution, fought in several phases from 1910 until the 1930s, was the defining formative event of modern Mexico, setting it off both from previous Mexican history and from the general development of the rest of Latin America. It was on the one hand one of the most violent of the 20th century's revolutions, killing a larger proportion of the population--about one Mexican in ten--than any other revolution till the genocidal Khmer Rouge upheaval in Cambodia (Hellman 49). On the other hand, the outcome of the Revolution was to give Mexico one of the more stable regimes in Latin America. If the struggle between rich and poor, which has shaken and defined the politics of most Latin American countries, was not solved by the Mexican revolution, it was at any rate sublimated by a resultant regime that, while nominally revolutionary, was primarily responsive to the interest of elites, while offering just enough incentives to popular classes to limit unrest and repression to a relatively low level. The essential background to the Revolution is the generation-long rule of dictator Porfirio Diaz. Diaz was shrewd enough to realize that by the late 19th century Mexico was already what would now be called an underdeveloped country. Under the influence of advisors known as cientificos, "scientific" development theorists, he established an economic policy based on encouragement of foreign investment (Hellman 45-46). In a material respect this policy was successful, and Me
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social classes, who might have experienced personally the insult of high-handed treatment by the foreigners--especially from the United State--favored by the Porfirio regime. This nationalistic impulse was powerfully strengthened after the high-handed US occupation of Veracruz in 1914 (Brenner and Leighton 47).
Even nationalism, however, was only a loosely defined battle cry, and not one that led directly to greater national cohesion in the short run. Landowners might be nationalistic in the sense of wanting to reclaim lands that had fallen under foreign ownership, but they had little interest in the federal government save as a prize to be siezed. Falling short of that they tended to set themselves up as local warlords, a process that tended to prolong the civil conflict. A further factor here was that Mexico is a very large country. On a globe it does not appear large when compared to Russia, or even to the United States, but Mexico is as large, and geographically more diverse and divided, than the Russian heartland region where the Russian Revolution was decided. The nature of the fighting, frequently for control of the railroad system, hastened the fragmenting process, since in the course of the fighting the railroads
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