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19. THE XX CENTURY.

The social cost of this neo-modernizing europeanization was very high. The exploitation of farm peons (acasillados), laborers and workers, especially at mines and textile factories, was very high. The expansionist policy of United States, that under its new Monroe policy, "America for the Americans", was not willing to tolerate, the ever greater economic and political interests of France, Germany, and England, in what they considered from those days, the "backyard of their house". All this led to the outbreak of the 1910 revolution and the new invasion of United States in 1917.

“...Mexico is a country extremely easy to dominate, because all it takes is to control a single man: the President. We must abandon the idea of having in the Mexican presidency an American citizen, since that would again lead to war. The solution needs more time: we must open the doors of our universities to ambitious young Mexicans and make the effort to educate them in the American way of life, our values and respect for the leadership of United States. Mexico will need competent administrators. Over time, these young people will come to occupy important positions and eventually take over the Presidency. Without that United States having to spend a penny or firing a shot, they will do whatever we want. And they will do so better and more radically than we..." (Richard Lansing, Secretary of State for President Wilson.) (1924).^[1]

When Porfirio Díaz prepares a new re-election for the sixth consecutive time and power was among the men of the center and south of the country, Francisco Indalecio Madero (1873-1913) shows up representing the interests of the nascent economic groups from northern Mexico. The Northern Group first try that Madero is the Vice President for the next election.

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1. Reproduced in the Economists Bulletin of 1963-1967, the national school of economists, UNAM