https://padlet.com/102135/5ryej2bxxn8y this is the timeline of Mexico. en-us 2020-04-02 15:40:22 UTC 2024-11-21 07:48:38 UTC hello@padlet.com 102135 https://padlet.com/102135/5ryej2bxxn8y/wish/489291957 The Revolution began on the 20th of November 1910 to overthrow the current ruler and dictator Porfirio Diaz Mori. Diaz had policies that favored foreign investors and wealthy landowners, causing a economic crisis for the country. This ended in the government changing.]]> 2020-04-02 15:44:32 UTC https://padlet.com/102135/5ryej2bxxn8y/wish/489291957 102135 https://padlet.com/102135/5ryej2bxxn8y/wish/489316850  Lazaro Cardenas, another former revolutionary general, is elected president. He  carried out many series of agrarian reforms, distributing great amounts of land to peasants. He accomplished more than any president before him.]]> 2020-04-02 15:53:07 UTC https://padlet.com/102135/5ryej2bxxn8y/wish/489316850 102135 https://padlet.com/102135/5ryej2bxxn8y/wish/489347621  In 1938, Cardenas nationalized the country’s oil industry. Creating a government agency to administrate the oil industry. Pemex is a state owned company that manages all of Mexico's oil. The foreign owned oil companies retaliated by making a embargo against Mexican oil, Mexican oil exports decreased by 50%.]]> 2020-04-02 16:04:58 UTC https://padlet.com/102135/5ryej2bxxn8y/wish/489347621 102135 https://padlet.com/102135/5ryej2bxxn8y/wish/489396711  in 1940, Cardenas more conservative successor, Manual Avila Camacho was elected. He forged a friendly relationship with the U.S. Mexico declared war on the Axis powers after the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor. Mexican pilots fought alongside U.S. pilots in the Philippines. Mexico agreed to pay the U.S. oil companies $24 million, for properties expropriated in 1938. The next year, Mexico joins the newly created United Nations. ]]> 2020-04-02 16:24:38 UTC https://padlet.com/102135/5ryej2bxxn8y/wish/489396711 102135 https://padlet.com/102135/5ryej2bxxn8y/wish/489425958  Mexico is in financial crisis. On September 1985, a earthquake in Mexico City kills nearly 10,000 people and causes heavy damage. The people mad with the government start human rights movements. Mexico's financial problems got worse and worse.]]> 2020-04-02 16:36:16 UTC https://padlet.com/102135/5ryej2bxxn8y/wish/489425958 102135 https://padlet.com/102135/5ryej2bxxn8y/wish/489442683  Zedillo Ponce de Leon, was elected president and faces a banking crisis. The value of the Mexican peso decreases on international markets. The United States loans Mexico $20 billion.]]> 2020-04-02 16:43:09 UTC https://padlet.com/102135/5ryej2bxxn8y/wish/489442683 102135 https://padlet.com/102135/5ryej2bxxn8y/wish/489460560  Vicente Fox wins election to Mexican presidency. Elections see the PAN emerge victorious, beating the PRI. A former Coca-Cola executive, Fox enters office as a conservative, focusing his early efforts on improving trade relations with the United States.]]> 2020-04-02 16:50:45 UTC https://padlet.com/102135/5ryej2bxxn8y/wish/489460560 102135 https://padlet.com/102135/5ryej2bxxn8y/wish/489493714  A new federal police force is created to tackle drugs cartels. thousands of troops are deployed as part of a major anti-drug trafficking drive. Mexico is trying to end there biggest problem, drugs.]]> 2020-04-02 17:04:35 UTC https://padlet.com/102135/5ryej2bxxn8y/wish/489493714 102135 https://padlet.com/102135/5ryej2bxxn8y/wish/489505024  Heavy rain floods the entire southern state of Tabasco. 500,000 are made homeless. this was one of the country's worst natural disasters. This is still impacting Tabasco today.]]> 2020-04-02 17:09:30 UTC https://padlet.com/102135/5ryej2bxxn8y/wish/489505024 102135 https://padlet.com/102135/5ryej2bxxn8y/wish/489516983 Drugs and human rights issues still control Mexico today, every day drug are smuggled across the border. Mexico also has a lot of debt. With the virus thousands are being affected, Mexico is a struggling country.]]> 2020-04-02 17:14:35 UTC https://padlet.com/102135/5ryej2bxxn8y/wish/489516983