HILA 132 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Bracero Program, United Nations Economic Commission For Latin America And The Caribbean, Peasant Union
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Economic commission of latin america and the caribbean (eclac) Pri: providing free education, especially in the cities, providing people with some other benefits. Financed by pemex (state oil company created by c rdenas after 1938. Diverse ways of coping in countryside expropriation: poverty still prevailed, might have increased under pri (neglect, ways to cope. Try to negotiate with government officials to make ends meet. Millions of mexicans, starting in the 1940s and continuing on through the. 80s, began moving to mexico city: major center for industrialization. Settling in very unfavorable areas: no paved streets, weak or no electric grid, frequent flooding. The people who decided that resistance was the way to go drew on the ideology of the mexican revolution: memories of zapata, c rdenas, etc. Believed that the government should be held accountable for their rights in the constitution of 1917. Over the course of the 50s and into the 60s, there were a number of protest movements.
