Geography 2020A/B Lecture Notes - Cuban Missile Crisis, United Fruit Company, Military Dictatorship
20 Apr 2014
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Late 19th c: enduring inequality of land and society. Banana republics (the peasants repressive against the republics that revolution was inevitable. against the elite are very interested and rising up for land reform and the dictators but the. American economies are tied into the republics etc. so the us was involved heavily. Military dictatorship under one man named profrio diaz (1876-1911) called the porfiriato. 2nd conquest rule elites expropriating vast land from small holders and indigenous peoples. This was seen as almost the second conquest of indigenous land. 1% of farmers: 97% of arable land at the cusp of the american revolution. So diaz controls mexico for 4 decades, and then it erupts. A huge revolutionary of mexico emiliano zapata fought for liberty and land. Zapata led the liberation army of the south. Another man named pancho villa was the revolutionary of the north; he was like the dirty mexican robin hood.
