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Ghostrider66:
fistful,

I think that like a lot of Latin American countries, the modern problems find their roots with the following of communist/socialist ideals into a revolution that is eventually successful.  Most of the glorified Mexican heroes from Francisco (Pancho) Villa to Emiliano Zapata gain fame and power through the old standard of putting down those greedy landowners and giving out the land to the poor peasants (who don't do much but eek out a measly existance with it).  This essentially killed any agricultural growth that had begun in the country.  Most countries that didn't fiddle with this little experiment eventually saw the fall of the "greedy landowners" by the onset of industrialization followed by the technology age.  By going the way of active redistribution, it stalled progress for 70+ years (oil and mining being some of the only industies to really thrive and those were government owned/controlled).  When the maquiladora movement began in Mexico bringing the first real industrial revolution, you began to hear the tired old mantra of exploitation of the working class, etc which of course retards progress even further.  The single most important economic issue that has been considered but never truly explored in Mexico is the free market.  You can only imagine had this been implimented at any part during the 20th century, with all of the natural assets, Mexico would probably be a richer country than ours.

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