Word: revolutionization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The English Department, however, has come through this year with a more inspired showing. All 33 English faculty members are leading tutorials, 13 of them junior tutorials. The department had traditionally involved most of its faculty in tutorials, so once again, the legislation has led to mild reform, not revolution...
That revolutionary rhetoric is the product of the 1910 revolution, which lasted eleven years, and, by some accounts, killed more than 1 million Mexicans. One of its lasting products was the constitution, written in 1917, that is still the country's basic charter. To prevent the rise of another Diaz...
Few of these ambitious social goals have been fulfilled. Instead, Mexico has become one of the world's most stratified and unequal societies. Ironically, much of the blame for Mexico's failure to achieve its constitutional goals must be placed on the unique political instrument that is supposed to embody...
The disparity between P.R.I, proclamations and performance is nowhere more glaring than in Mexico's long heralded land redistribution program. Since the 1910 revolution, about 38 million acres have been expropriated from huge haciendas and given to 25,000 communal ejidos (peasant associations) composed of families who have occupied the...
During the erratic presidency of Luis Echeverria, the system came closer to breaking down than at any other time since the 1910 revolution. Frightened by his leftist economic proposals, like forming state enterprises and financing them with freshly printed money, many businessmen quietly transferred funds to safer havens, in Europe...