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The '''United Mexican States''' is a liberal colonial capitalist [[List of States|state]] in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the [[United States of America|United States]]; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by [[Guatemala]], [[Belize]], and the Caribbean Sea; and to the east by the Gulf of Mexico. | {{Infobox_location|title = Mexico|image = 1920px-Flag of Mexico.svg.png|imagecaption = The flag of Mexico. Red, white, and green are the colors of the national army in Mexico. The central emblem is the Mexican coat of arms, based on the Aztec symbol for Tenochtitlan (now Mexico City), the center of the Aztec empire. It recalls the legend of an eagle sitting on a cactus while devouring a serpent that signaled to the Aztecs where to found their city, Tenochtitlan.|map = 1024px-MEX orthographic.svg.png|mapcaption = The location of Mexico, between North and Central America.|inhabitants = 126,577,691 people (2019 estimate)}}The '''United Mexican States''' is a liberal colonial capitalist [[List of States|state]] in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the [[United States of America|United States]]; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by [[Guatemala]], [[Belize]], and the Caribbean Sea; and to the east by the Gulf of Mexico. | ||
== History == | == History == | ||
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</image> <image source="map"></image> <label>Type</label> <label>Level</label> <label>Location</label> <label>Inhabitants</label> </infobox>The United Mexican States is a liberal colonial capitalist state in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and to the east by the Gulf of Mexico.
History
Porfiriato
The dictator Porfirio Diaz ruled Mexico from 1876 to 1910. It strongly supported landlords and oversaw a slow industrial revolution in a few cities, but much of the country worked on farms, producing cash crops (like sugar, coffee, cotton and rubber) for export. The remaining communal land holdings (mainly held by indigenous Mexicans) were forcefully enclosed to make sure private property began to dominate the country, indigenous peasants who refused to leave or were willing to fight were killed by landlord-funded paramilitaries known as the White Guards. Peasants were paid in crops and forced to purchase items from company shops which had inflated prices, forcing them into debt which was passed onto children, and anyone who tried to escape were hunted down by the White Guards. Conditions on these farms were extremely harsh, killing between 173,000 and 2,015,000 people in a country with a population of less than 16,000,000.[1][2][3]
Revolution
The Mexican Revolution (1910 - 1920) broke out after nearly 50 years of this tyranny, with peasant militias seizing land and in some towns taking over factories. Anarchist communes were established in Morelos and Baja to present a working alternative of indigenous libertarian socialism. But these were defeated by the military, led by a new socially democratic government.