country, such as paying taxes. The alarm was raised, and led by representatives of those foreign interests and by the embassy of United States as general headquarters, revolution defeated mexicans, allied with the largely intact porfirian army despite their defeat, assaulted power and assassinated Madero." (Eduardo Blanquel 1973)
Victoriano Huerta (1873-1916) the "Jackal", peon of the United States embassy appropriated the Presidency, shot Madero and José María Pino Suárez (1869-1913) and will fight against Venustiano Carranza (1859-1920), who will be the leader in this new stage of the revolution alongside with Emiliano Zapata, Francisco Villa and Álvaro Obregón (1880-1928), whom after bloody fighting will defeat Huerta in 1914. Carranza assumed the presidency and started dismantling european interests and the army's Diaz with the support of the United States. Gives his Government a nationalist character on the basis of the 1917 Constitution, tries to start the solution to centuries of injustice, but the climate in the country is total instability. The people in arms and full of "generals" whishing power and redemption, made his Government impossible. The leader loses control and confronts Zapata, Villa in turn faces Obregón.
Carranza is assassinated and Obregón takes the presidency in 1921 and thereby ending the armed struggle and starts the "institutionalized Revolution" or as writer Mario Vargas Llosa said the "Perfect dictatorship", which will govern intact until 1982, year in which neoliberalism is implanted in Mexico, that will have to dismantle the nationalist and revolutionary ideology, to open the doors to foreign finances capital through the signing of the Trilateral Free Trade Agreement, which is the submissive cancellation of self-determination and sovereignty.
"In 1921 the true national reconstruction commenced. Despite its execution slowness and fluctuations, the agrarian reform was set in motion. The ownership of large real estate (latifundio), now banned, would transfer property ownership of small land, because according to the official view of the time, this was the optimal land exploitation formula. Next to it,
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