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The 1910 revolution in Mexico was an unavoidable reaction by peasants and the urban poor to the program of agricultural displacement and growth of an industrial proletarian culture brought on by the Export Boom and the accompanying dislocation felt by …

Of this weeks readings the one I found most interesting was the poem “To Roosevelt”. This piece is quite interesting because it is a departure from the letters and manifestos that we usually read. However that being said To Roosevelt is still a manifes…

October 21st: Signs of Crisis in a Gilded Age (Ch 5)The GDP growth chart (Figure C.1) was staggering. As a whole, Latin America’s GDP grew exponentially between 1950 and 2000. One can only imagine how this dramatic change affected the social structure….

Latin Americans lived in a fragmentary world; one person’s boom was always another’s crisis. I think this stills been true until nowadays; for example one of the most richest man in the world is a Mexican (Carlos Slim), and also almost 60% of the Mexican population live in poverty. In the book it is established […]

All the documents in this chapter were penned during the export boom. Each documents attempts to make sense of said boom in such way that it draws moral conclusions about the sort of political and economical transformations taking place in Latin America during that period of time. Even though all documents tackled the same issue, […]