MEXICO

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MEXICO

• Political Culture
• AP Comparative Government
• Mr. Kuzmich Lecture Notes

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Journal Writing

• Why was Foxs sexenio not the breakthrough it was
  supposed to be?
• Did his policies differ much from PRIs?

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Encomienda System

• Feudal type of social stratification
• Peninsulares Spanish born
• Criollos creoles Spaniards born in the
  New World
• Mestizoes persons of mixed heritage
• Indigenas Native Amerindians

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Mestizo - Mestizaje

• Spanish and Indian descent
• Porfirio Diaz
• President from 1877 to 1911
• 60-75 of the population

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Indigenas

• Benito Juarez - Zapotec
• President from 1858 to 1872
• Native Amerindians make up about 11 of the
  population

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LIBERALISM

• 19th century ideology that rejected monarchy and
  opened society
• Juarez and Diaz attempted to liberalize society,
  but no middle class developed

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POSITIVISM

• Experts should improve society through science
• Diazs cientificos pushed positivism, though it
  went against liberalism

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SOCIALISM

• European construct connecting large working class
  with political power
• Mexico had little industry and a small
  proletariat it was precapitalist.
• Mexico created and coddled unions to make it look
  like it had a working class.

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Salvador Allende
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RURAL SOCIALISM

• Ideology rejects industry in favor of small farms
• Equality and sufficiency through idyllic family
  farming

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Emiliano Zapata and his bro EufemioSubcomandante
Marcos of the Zapatistas
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ANARCHISM

• Ideology espousing that the end of national
  government will erase class differences.
• No government needed because trade unions will
  run society.

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ANTICLERICALISM

• Desires to remove the Roman Catholic Church from
  a countrys politics.
• Founded by the French writer Voltaire

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Plutarco Calles (1924-1928)

• Plutarco Calles claimed the Catholic Church had
  too much political power, favored the rich, and
  kept Mexico backwards.

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FASCISM

• A combination of nationalism, corporatism and
  fake socialism under a charismatic leader
  founded by Mussolini and copied by Hitler and
  Franco
• Cardenas was closest with his brand of
  nationalism and socialism.

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COMMUNISM

• Revolutionary Marxist socialism under the
  direction of Moscow
• Popular Latin American theme End U.S.
  exploitation!
• Mexican artists Diego Rivera and David
  Siqueiros

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• Diego Riveras En el Arsenal
• 1928

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David SiqueirosCampesinos - 1913