Mexico by StephenFessler https://padlet.com/metroidhalo/fcfeazc3v2mg Wonderful World of Mexico! en-us 2018-05-02 18:18:41 UTC 2025-11-29 17:06:52 UTC hello@padlet.com 1910 Revolution hajra1823 https://padlet.com/metroidhalo/fcfeazc3v2mg/wish/257777833
  • anger against Diaz and foreign investors exploded
  • peasants, workers, and middle class members joined to overthrow Diaz
  • civil war raged across Mexico as rebel groups battled for power
  • in the end, it gave the country more democratic government
  • 1917: new constitution and government control over resources
  • constitution called for land for peasants, protecting workers' rights, and limiting the power of the church
  • resulted ultimately in the end of the 30-year dictatorship in Mexico and the establishment of a constitutional republic 
    • ]]>     2018-05-03 17:46:47 UTC https://padlet.com/metroidhalo/fcfeazc3v2mg/wish/257777833     PRI and Zapatistas hajra1823 https://padlet.com/metroidhalo/fcfeazc3v2mg/wish/257777892
  • PRI and Zapatistas: political groups
  • the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) dominated the govt, even though Mexico is a democracy
  • PRI paid attention to the needs of many groups
  • included industrialists, middle class, farmers, and workers
  • critics believe that PRI used fraud and violence to stay in power
  • 2000: the PRI lost Mexico's presidential election to Vicente Fox Quesada 
  • President Fox faced challenges from rebel groups
    • Zapatista National Liberation Army
    • Based in the Mexican state of Chiapas in the south
    • They demand greater rights for Mexico's Native Americans
    • ]]>     2018-05-03 17:46:57 UTC https://padlet.com/metroidhalo/fcfeazc3v2mg/wish/257777892     Maquiladoras shyann_neal https://padlet.com/metroidhalo/fcfeazc3v2mg/wish/257778665 -Maquiladoras is a foreign owned plant in which local workers assemble parts into finished goods.
    -American and Japanese companies built maquiladoras in Mexico to take advantage of low wages paid to workers.]]>     2018-05-03 17:48:30 UTC https://padlet.com/metroidhalo/fcfeazc3v2mg/wish/257778665     Díaz https://padlet.com/metroidhalo/fcfeazc3v2mg/wish/257785003
  • He created programs that were supposed to modernize Mexico and he reached out to foreigners
  • The foreigners built railroads, developed mines, and bought land in Mexico.
  • The production of silver, copper, coffee, and sugar.
  • Díaz created a brutal police force that were ordered to destroy rural bandits and political opponents.
  • Economic growth benefited Diaz and foreign investors while 90% of Mexican peasants owned no land at all. 
  • Peasants worked on large estates for low wages and some lived on the bridge of starvation.

    • ]]>     2018-05-03 17:59:48 UTC https://padlet.com/metroidhalo/fcfeazc3v2mg/wish/257785003     Current Event in Mexico metroidhalo https://padlet.com/metroidhalo/fcfeazc3v2mg/wish/257789997 https://www.forbes.com/sites/nathanielparishflannery/2018/03/26/mexicos-2018-election-populism-vs-prudence/#7f1e36c22d11

    • Mexico is undergoing a presidential election. 
    • With years of social unrest, criminals challenging authority,  and poverty, leading candidate Lopez Obrador has peoples hopes that he will fix the corruption in Mexico.

    What are some actions Lopez could do to deal with Mexico's problems? (Hint: Look at Diaz, NAFTA, and PRI)
    ]]>     2018-05-03 18:09:38 UTC https://padlet.com/metroidhalo/fcfeazc3v2mg/wish/257789997     Mexico hajra1823 https://padlet.com/metroidhalo/fcfeazc3v2mg/wish/257797346 2018-05-03 18:25:36 UTC https://padlet.com/metroidhalo/fcfeazc3v2mg/wish/257797346 Free Trade NAFTA shyann_neal https://padlet.com/metroidhalo/fcfeazc3v2mg/wish/258648040 free trade had low tariffs and no restrictions 
    • NAFTA set up a common market of close to 400 million consumers.(Mexico, Canada and the United States signed this treaty)
    • many hoped that free trade attracted foreign investment
    • others worried about growing role of the United States and Japan in the Mexican economy.
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