Geography 2012A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Tonton Macoute, Jacobo Árbenz, Reall
4 Feb 2017
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Lecture 4 notes: land inequality and revolutionary struggle. Fuentes: recurring conflicts in the 20th century. Themes: banana republic, engrained military dictatorship, foreign economic exploitation. Land inequalities are central to social struggle, mobilization, revolution. Most of latin america, gave rise to countries with military autocratic rule. Us repeated interventions, throwing governments, installing new governments. (look at map) First and biggest revolution: in mexico: late 19th century dominated by a man named porfirio diaz. (1876-1911, oversaw a period of big transformations in mexico: mexi pre-industrial, rural, ltd technological innovation. Admired us and europe: promotes aggressive modernization through welcoming foreign investment, infrastructure (rail), urbanization, 2nd conquest: rural elites expropriating vast land from smallholders and indigenous peoples. Diaz wanted big plantations, big haciendas, gear toward export markets. Feed growing urbanizations: extensive landlessness vs landholders w/ 90% of arable land. Tipping point, diaz is running for an election. Francisco madero sparks uprising, and takes power.
