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Show 19 to drive common more and more land which had been held in from people by them for centuries, reducing landless serfs. the land to This policy was foreign exploitation in order to and to ferent the of these actions consequences than those intended free by D{az and his add to more land for more for the strengthen support government among the influential classes. asserts, position of designed primarily haciendas already large them to the But, as Tannenbaum were to be advisors. far dif As he says: The modernization of Mexico was coincident with lowering standards of life for the mass of the people, with the violent destruction of age-old village organi zation, with the alienation of great parts of Mexican territory, with persistent denial of aspirations of These difficulties large masses of the population. were the less acceptable as industrialization brought with it new ideas, a comparatively free and increasing industrial working population, strong influences from the growing migration to the United States, and con flicts of competing foreign industrial groups in Mexico that stood to gain or lose by changing policies of the All of these factors wove a complicated government. web of play and counterp1ay that weakened the powers of the central government and made the Mexican revolution possib1e.4 - In the Mexican the printing press the idE;fa that was play to D{az might Mexican government his was Revolution, soon not an like most modern revolutions, important role. retire from an Until active part practically considered by supporters who longed to succeed him. 1908, in the those In March of of 1908, 4Frank Tannenbaum, The Mexican Agrarian Revolution The Brookings Institution, 1930), pp. 144, (Washington, D.C.; 149, 151-152, 154-155. |
