01:590:101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Francisco I. Madero, Victoriano Huerta, Plan Of Ayala

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Latin American Studies
• Course: 01:590:101
• Professor: I.Beltran

Document Summary

October 15: class period spent going over exam. Think about encomienda system - the granting of labor of particular number of indigenous people on a part of land for a certain amount of time (generally 2 generations) Continued to exist beyond the end of the colony. Peru: 1969 - end of the hacienda system. The system survived from conquest up until mid 20t century. Select few people consolidating a lot of land (in mexico, 1000 families owned 25% of the land. yikes. ) Porfirio diaz: democratically elected, then democratically elected for several years after. He invited a lot of foreign aid, but this further dispossessed people of their land. Mexican revolution is noted as a time when this dispossession of land causes people to rise up. He wins the election in 1910, but diaz does not see the presidency. Writes a declaration that calls on people to rise up against the dictator.