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Diaz attempted to modernize and strengthen Mexico while ruling.
He had a strong police force that destroyed political opponents and rural bandits.
Diaz and the wealthy Mexicans benefited from the economic growth.
Most Mexicans had no land, they were starving, and they earned low wages.

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The peasants and the workers worked together to overthrow Diaz. There was 11 years of civil war to fight for power.
1 million Mexicans died during the civil war.
The 1917 constitution gave the peasants land and protected workers rights.
The government also controlled the oil and silver.

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(Institutional revolutionary party)
-Was a Mexican political party founded in 1929.
-It included farmers, the middle class, industrialists, and workers. The PRI paid attention to many groups needs.
They held power in Mexico for 71 Years.

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Mexico had free trade or very low tariffs. Canada, The United States and Mexico all had the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
The agreement helped out about 400 million consumers.
Mexico also signed a free trade deal with the European Union and many other country's.
Many Mexicans were hoping that the free trade would mean an increase in jobs but others were worried about
the role of the United States and Japan had with Mexico

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Limited foreign ownership in any company to less than 50%.
For a long time Mexico had high tariffs on imports to protect local industries.
NAFTA attracted foreign investment and it opened up Mexico to trade with European union and other nations.

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A far left libertarian socialist political/militant group.
They control a lot of land in Chiapas which is southern Mexico. They were formed in 1983 and demand greater rights for the Native Americans of Mexico.

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Mexico declared the war on drugs on December 11, 2006. With in the first couple of months that the government started to "cracked down" and killed about 62 cartel members. In early 2007 the government captured or killed about 2700 people. Today there are more than 3000 cartel members that have been captured. Including El Chopo

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Factories run by foreign companies that ship the product back to the foreign companies home country. This is used by Japan and U.S companies due to lower wages and less rights for Mexican workers.