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Mexico and the United States.
- Source :
- New Republic; 3/30/27, Vol. 50 Issue 643, p159-164, 6p
- Publication Year :
- 1927
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Abstract
- Focuses on implications of the unabated U.S. capital investment in Mexico. Importance of geographical privileges in the development of the U.S.; View that Spain rule over Mexico deprived the Mexican people of any share in the ownership or the products of its soil; Discussion on changes in the Mexican population under the Spanish occupation; Conversion to Catholicism in Mexico; Discussion on Mexico after it got its independence; Efforts of Benito Juarez, former president of Mexico, for reforming the country; View that Mexico is, for the first time, practicing self-government; Political and economic threat from the U.S. to Mexico; Implications of the fact that the U.S. investment in Mexico is continuously rising; View that the Mexicans can build up an independent national economy only by limiting and conditioning the influx of capital from the U.S.; Expression of the fear that the assertion of economic independence by Mexico will provoke irritation and enmity in the U.S.; Interest of the U.S. in converting the whole of Mexico and Central America into an economic and political dependency; Assumption on the consequences if the U.S. attempts to subjugate the people in Mexico and Central America to the interests of the owners of foreign capital.
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00286583
- Volume :
- 50
- Issue :
- 643
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- New Republic
- Publication Type :
- Periodical
- Accession number :
- 15354326