MEXICAN Revolution: causes and consequences

One of the most important events in the history of mankind is the revolutions, being the events that most change the situation of a country and that therefore more studies are needed to understand. To see the origin and conclusion of one of the most important revolutions in this lesson from a PROFESSOR we are going to talk about the Mexican Revolution: causes and consequences.

The Mexican Revolution It was an armed, social and political conflict that began in the 20th November 1910 and that ended in 1917 with the signing of the Constitution of 1917. Throughout these years Mexico suffered a series of popular movements that would end up causing a huge change in society and politics Mexican.

The origins of the conflict were born in the Porfiriato, being a dictatorial government led by Porfirio Díaz from 1876 to 1911 characterized by a great economic prosperity of the upper classes, but by a decline in the social and economic of the middle and lower classes.

The words of Porfirio Díaz talking about the possibility of leaving the presidency created a climate of tension in the policy of the region that started a series of people's movements that would end with the origin of the revolution Mexican.

The Mexican Revolution is one of the most important events in the history of Mexico, and one of the main events of the beginning of the century, being commemorated with various events in the Mexican state, since it caused a total change in Mexican society.

To continue with this lesson on the causes and consequences of the Mexican Revolution we must talk about the background and about the reasons that started this important event for the history of Mexico. The causes of the mexican revolution were the following:

• The great inequality caused in Mexico due to an economic and political policy that greatly benefited the upper classes against the middle classes.
• The government of Porfirio Díaz who promised on several occasions to leave the position of president but kept his position for about 30 years.
• The preference in foreign capital over national, causing the Americans and Europeans to have enormous economic importance in the region, having as Consequently, some of the most important elements of the Mexican country were owned by people who did not even reside in the region.
• The peasants were very impoverished, working for large estates that in many cases were in the hands of foreigners or of great Mexican politicians.
• The economy was basically agricultural, working the 90% of the population in rural areas, causing environmental problems to leave almost the entire country without food.
• The situation of the workers was horrible, with working days of up to 12 hours, with the prohibition of striking and without any type of labor law that defended their rights.
• There was a grand corruption in the Mexican state, both for the agreements with foreigners and for the interests generated for the family and friends of Porfirio Díaz.
• The arrival of new philosophical currents they made the Mexican people open their eyes to the situation in the country and seek a new model of state.

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Revolutions are large and abrupt changes in a country, so it is common for great consequences to be caused in many parts of the state. Some major consequences of the Mexican revolution are as follows:

• The first consequence of the Mexican Revolution was the fall of the Mexican dictator Porfirio Díaz, causing the birth of democracy and leading Mexico to a totally new system. Although it is true that the American state would take a few years to find the best way to govern the country democratically.
• The arrival of democracy to the Mexican panorama brought with it the creation of a constitution, which among its characteristics had a universal vote, the prohibition of slavery practices, and a division of powers. It was not a very revolutionary constitution, but it added key elements for the evolution of Mexico.
• One of the causes of the revolution was the lack of laws to protect the workers, so the new government wasted no time in drafting a labor law. The new law allowed strikes and made the working day one of 8 hours with days off and vacations.
• The power that religious figures had come to have in Mexico meant that after the revolution a freedom of worship, Any Mexican being able to believe in the religion he wanted without any kind of retaliation. This also caused some priests to lose their lands that passed into the hands of the peasants.
• The freedom of expression, what allowed greater diffusion of the ideas that had caused the Mexican revolution and gave a greater value of freedom to Mexico.
• The news agrarian reforms They returned the lands to those who worked them, passing these from foreign hands to national hands and increasing the capital of the lower classes.
• The oil, which until then had been exploited by foreign hands and friends of Mexican politicians, returned to the new Mexican government and served for a new economic prosperity.
• The revolution had ended with the railway lines so the government had to make new ones, although this time they were in Mexican hands.

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